Re: [DVB] Octopus driver status

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Mauro.