HI I have completed my testing and evaluation of dvb-kernel support for budget cards ond kernel 2.4.20 and found it highly useable.
DVB reception is excellent. Even with two cards and two mplayers in parallel everything is smooth and can work for many hours even days without artefacts of other interruptions. Default BIOS PCI latency=32 will do (no more required bus-hungry latency=128). Network reception is excellent, packet loss is so far the lowest. There is neat support for adding and removal of network devices with netdev commandline that can be done in startup scripts or maintained via commandline. Stability tests with die-hard vpeirq garbage feed, fast reopening of frontend and network +- promisc have passed smoothly. Support for budget-patch is complete and final, patched dvb-s is fully operational as any budget card. Removal of the dvb-suite drivers is not well supported, so for the production setups I recommend that you load dvb modules on startup and keep them loaded. Removing of the modules can lead to non-fatal oops if demux is in use or if 2 or more different ttpci-budget-* modules are loaded. Also, dvb-kernel support in 2.5.60 is still not useable for production but just for development and some testing. More development is needed, so feel free to review the code, analyze oops with ksymoops and send patches. Best regards, Emard -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
