Re: [DVB] Octopus driver status

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

Hi Mauro,

On Friday 24 June 2011 13:57:16 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 24-06-2011 06:51, Oliver Endriss escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:31:08 Sébastien RAILLARD wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I'm looking at the Octopus DVB cards system from Digital Devices for a while
> >> as their system seems to be very interesting 
> >>
> >> Here is link with their products:
> >> http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/6
> >> 2357162/Categories
> >>
> >> The good points I have found:
> >>
> >> * They support most of the common DVB standards: DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and
> >> DVB-S2
> >> * They are moderately priced
> >> * There is a CAM support with a CI adapter for unscrambling channels
> >> * They are using the now de-facto standard PCI-Express bus
> >> * The new Octopus system is using a LATTICE PCI-Express bridge that seems to
> >> be more future proof than the previous bridge Micronas APB7202A
> >> * They seem to be well engineered ("Designed and manufactured in Germany" as
> >> they say!)
> >>
> >> And now the doubts :
> >>
> >> * The DVB-C/T frontend driver is specific to this system and is very new, so
> >> as Devin said one week ago, it's maybe not yet production ready
> >> * The way the CAM is supported break all the existing userland DVB
> >> applications (gnutv, mumudvb, vlc, etc.)
> >> * There isn't so much information about the Digital Devices company and
> >> their products roadmap (at least in English)
> >>
> >> So, my two very simple questions to the developers who worked on the drivers
> >> (I think Oliver and Ralph did) and know the product:
> >> * How you feel the future about the Octopus driver?
> > 
> > The drivers work fine. I am not aware of any problems.
> > 
> > All Digital Devices cards and tuner variants are supported by the driver
> > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/media_build_experimental
> > 
> > ddbridge (Lattice bridge):
> > - Octopus (all variants)
> > - cineS2 v6
> > - DuoFlex S2 (stv0900 + stv6110 + lnbp21)
> > - DuoFlex C/T (Micronas DRXK + NXP TDA18271C2)
> > 
> > ngene bridge:
> > - cineS2 (v4,v5), Satix S2 Dual
> > - PCIe bridge, mini PCIe bridge
> > - DuoFlex S2 (stv0900 + stv6110 + lnbp21)
> > - DuoFlex C/T (Micronas DRXK + NXP TDA18271C2)
> > 
> > For a German description, see
> > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board85-hdtv-dvb-s2/105803-aktuelle-treiber-für-octopus-ddbridge-cines2-ngene-ddbridge-duoflex-s2-duoflex-ct-sowie-tt-s2-6400
> > 
> > From an operational point of view, the driver is ready for the kernel.
> > Unfortunately I did not have the time yet to clean up the coding-style.
> > There are thousands of coding-style issues waiting to be fixed...
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> If it is ok for you, I have here a few devices with DRXK that I'm seeking for
> some time to work with. I'll probably have some time this weekend for them,
> so I can do the CodingStyle cleanups, if it is ok for you.

Just for the record: Ralph did most of the work.
I just contributed some glue stuff.

I'll check with Ralph, whether he has any updates pending.
These should be applied before fixing the coding-style.

If you could wait until next weekend, I could prepare a patch series,
which you could start with. The current repository has some files at
the wrong places, etc.

CU
Oliver

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