re: xc2028 reloads firmware every time

[Dan Taylor <dan.taylor2@ca.rr.com>]

> I'm not sure quite when this happened, since I haven't done updates in the past year.
> 
> With the older pull, I was able to load the tuner firmware for an Avermedia A16D
> (SAA7134 and xc3028, using the xc2028 module) once at system start (using mplayer
> to grab a few frames to ao and vo null), then it never needed to be loaded again,
> which reduced to startup times to match a pcHDTV 5500 that has no firmware to load.
> 
> Have anyone changed to code to require a firmware load on each open, or is this
> likely to be a side-effect of some other change?
> 
> Everything appears to be working, once the firmware is loaded, but this behavior
> (several seconds of blank screen while the firmware loads) is really obnoxious
> on an embedded system.

Sorry.  Puller the "ask" trigger too soon.

I found the module parameter no_poweroff.

Initial tests seem to be working.  I'll have to build the
module parameter option file into the embedded system now
to see that it that it works there, too.