On Sunday 02 July 2006 01:46, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Hans Verkuil writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since ivtv and pvrusb2 share most of the firmware files, I thought
> > it made sense to combine them. So the firmwares for both drivers
> > can be downloaded here:
> >
> > http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz
>
> Going forward, would it be possible to use a different filename for
> each firmware tarball revision, instead of replacing the same file?
Sorry, no. It's a fixed name the driver is looking for.
>
> In the US, redistributing these firmware images are not likely to be
> legal, and although I doubt that Hauppauge would have any logical
> reason to object, logic is something that US corporation are not
> really famous for.
As I understand it there is no official permission, but unofficially
it's OK. And for the record: ivtvdriver.org is hosted in Germany.
Should anyone object I can always remove it again and extract it from
their own drivers. But that would be customer-unfriendly from them.
So I'm taking my chances here.
What would be really nice of course is if Hauppauge themselves would
distribute an archive containing the firmwares.
Hans
> So, my installer downloads the firmware tarball
> at install time, and I verify md5 checksums of the downloaded file.
> Having the md5 checksums change throws me a minor monkey wrench. Not
> that I can expect firmware.tar.gz to change rather often, but still…
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