From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from [195.7.61.12] ([195.7.61.12]:55281 "EHLO killala.koala.ie" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754742AbZGCQGH (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:06:07 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (killala.koala.ie [195.7.61.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by killala.koala.ie (8.14.0/8.13.7) with ESMTP id n63G68qC023375 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:06:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4A4E2C6E.3010707@koala.ie> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:06:06 +0100 From: Simon Kenyon MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: Call for testers: Terratec Cinergy T XS USB support References: <829197380906290700n16a0f4faxd29caa12587222f7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@bombadil.infradead.org Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Markus Rechberger wrote: > Hi all, > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Devin > Heitmueller wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> A few weeks ago, I did some work on support for the Terratec Cinergy T >> XS USB product. I successfully got the zl10353 version working and >> issued a PULL request last week >> (http://www.kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/em28xx-terratec-zl10353) >> >> > > There will be an alternative driver entirely in userspace available > which works across all major kernelversions and distributions. It will > support the old em28xx devices and handle audio routing for the most > popular TV applications directly. > > This system makes compiling the drivers unnecessary across all > available linux systems between 2.6.15 and ongoing. This package also > allows commercial drivers from vendors, the API itself is almost the > same as the video4linux/linuxdvb API. Installing a driver takes less > than five seconds without having to take care about the kernel API or > having to set up a development system. Aside of that it's operating > system independent (working on Linux, MacOSX and FreeBSD). > I think this is the way to go for the future since it adds more > possibilities to the drivers, and it eases up and speeds up driver > development dramatically. > > Best Regards, > Markus > ROTFLOL (well actually it was more like a rather bemused smile) -- simon