From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:48503 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbZHQEu6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:50:58 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([76.94.241.155]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090817045059583.EUVE6077@cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:50:59 +0000 Message-ID: <4A88E131.2000600@ca.rr.com> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:48:49 -0700 From: Dan Taylor Reply-To: danieltaylor@acm.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: re: xc2028 reloads firmware every time Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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.