[linux-dvb] Re: New DVB driver release 1.0.0-pre1

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:37:08AM +0100, Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Emard writes:
>  > would be to start GPL firmware, maybe even bogus in the beginning but
>  > people will exchange knowledge and soon it will be full functional.
> 
> I did that almost 2 years ago. Nobody did anything with it.

I know someone who did.

> It is in CVS (or used to be and still is in the attic) at DVB/driver/av7110/gnufirm.
> It is a primitive skeleton for a firmware, about everything I could
> write without using proprietary information.

It's still in the NEWSTRUCT branch.

The problem is that the RTSL is too large. You can get the demux
to work if you start writing a GPL firmware from scratch, but
the MPEG decoder is just too much, IMHO.


Regards,
Johannes


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