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

[Emard <emard@softhome.net>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 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.

Can someone recommend working (little-endian?) arm binutils+gcc 
package for debian to try with the firmware? Emdebian arm utils 
are big-endian, seems not useable for av7110

Emard


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