From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:57:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403A8575.20900@convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402231708440.4872@chaos>
Hello Richard,
On 02/23/04 23:23, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Michael Hunold wrote:
>>+ The Windows drivers for the Avermedia DVB-T can be obtained
>>+ from: http://babyurl.com/H3U970 and you can get an application
>>+ to extract the firmware from:
>>+ http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php.
>>+ _________________________________________________________
>
>
> Truly bizarre, weird........
DVB under Linux is sometimes cruel. Newer devices require firmware which
cannot be legally distributed.
So these curde workarounds are necessary, unfortunately.
>>+ The default Linux filesystem location for this firmware is
>>+ /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/sc_main.mc .
> What does this have to do with the kernel? Isn't this for some
> utility that starts Aver/TV? Surely the kernel doesn't read files.
The description said, that the file is also a nice introduction to DVB
in general (with a close look to the avermedia cards), so this
information wasn't stripped.
>> extracted from the Windows driver (Sc_main.mc).
>> - tda1004x: firmware is loaded from path specified in
>> DVB_TDA1004X_FIRMWARE_FILE kernel config
>
>
> WTF? The __kernel__ doesn't read files. User mode programs
> use the kernel to read files for them, on their behalf.
Please refer to my other mail to Christoph and Andrew. Some of the
drivers uses historical cruft and we have a plan to overcome this.
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
CU
Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-23 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-23 21:04 [PATCH 0/9] LinuxTV.org DVB update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 2/9] Update saa7146 driver core Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 3/9] Minor DVB Skystar2 updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] DVB core update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] Misc. DVB frontend updates Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] stv0299 DVB frontend update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] av7110 DVB driver update Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] TTUSB-Budget " Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 21:18 ` [PATCH 7/9] tda1004x DVB frontend update Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 22:47 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-23 23:01 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 22:52 ` Michael Hunold
2004-02-23 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-23 23:15 ` Ralph Metzler
2004-02-24 11:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-02-23 22:23 ` [PATCH 1/9] Update the DVB subsystem docs Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-23 22:57 ` Michael Hunold [this message]
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