On St, 2002-10-16 at 10:07, Holger Waechtler wrote: > Hi, > > Ralph Metzler wrote: > > Thilo Wunderlich writes: > > > [ARM crash] > > > > All we can do is to try to work around these bugs and hope that Ralph > > > > will fix them one day... > > > > > > Is Ralph the only one now who is able to change things in the ARM > > > code? > > > > No, Convergence can of course do their own firmware bugfixes. > > I also am not certain about the possible legal implications if I would > > offer new firmwares myself. > > I can't see any implications. > > > > > Whats the status of the split of dvb as the Metzler brothers posted a > > > while ago? Are they going to release a branch themselves? > > > > When we have the time. > > You have to understand that our current work is not directly related > > to the "big" DVB card and we do not have much spare time. > > > > Since Convergence now completely dropped support for cards which were > > only supported in the old branch (and which we need) we cannot use > > their current CVS anyway. > > About what cards are you talking? About the Margi and EM8300? They are > just not in CVS HEAD because nobody had the time yet to review the code > and test it. If anybody needs them it's pretty simple to 'port' them. > All changes between NEWSTRUCT and HEAD were only variable renamings in > order to follow the kernel CodingStyle rules in pulic API files. > > Whenever somebody has the time to do this work please contact me and > send the patch. > > Ralph: When you do it, you can commit it yourself, you still have your > CVS account, right? > > > > > Whats up with the fixed/improved CAM handling someone from > > > convergence wrote about months ago? > > > > That only was a new implementation of the CI link layer inside the > > firmware. You would still have to write the upper CI layers > > in a user application. Since this also is code which we wrote for > > Convergence you will have to ask them if they are going to release a > > firmware with it. > > We already talked about this and would be willing to release this > binary, but then somebody has to start an OpenSource CI link layer in > user space. Otherwise it would not make much sense. I don't even know if > this is possible with publicly available specs. >
Yes, please, please, if somebody have access to CI link layer spec then we can at least try to do it. <joke> The best solution would be to get a CSA (Common Scrambling Algoritm) spec, then we don't need any CAM or softCAM at all ;) </joke> /Honza -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
