On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 17:49 -0400, Andy Walls wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 16:59 +0100, Steve Firth wrote: > > Just another quick update. > > > > I've now reinstalled the 2nd tuner card back into the ACER 500, and I > > can confirm that the patched drivers for the Yuan MPC718 work fine on > > DVB-T both inside and outside of mythtv. > > Glad to hear it's working.
> > I don't know how your release procedures work or if further testing or > > trials are needed but if you require me to do any e.g. regression > > testing just let me know > > I'd like to get 2 more things done: > > 1. Get the EEPROM dump working for the MPC-718 working properly. It > will hopefully be useful for identifying variants of the card in the > future. > > 2. Change the function to init the mt352 DVB-T demodulator to read in a > "firmware" file. The init sequence in my repository was extracted from > the windows driver. I strongly believe I cannot have that committed to > the Linux kernel, even though it is only 46 bytes from a 143 kilobyte > file. I will also have to write an extraction tool to pull the sequence > out of the windows binary and put instructions on a wiki page. > > > I will need you to test both of these changes when I'm ready. Steve, To ensure MPC-718 DVB-T support can be included in the Linux kernel, I have checked in changes to my MPC-718 development repo to: 1. extract a "firmware" sequence from the MPC-718 Windows driver 2. load that firmware in the cx18 driver to help init the MT352 on the MPC-718 See http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/cx18-mpc718 Please test it when you can 1. Run the get_dvb_firmware script with my changes from that repo and install the new firmware file: $ cd cx18-mpc718 $ chmod u+x linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware $ linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware mpc718 $ sudo cp dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw /lib/firmware (or wherever for your distro) 2. Compile, install, and test the updated cx18 driver from that repo. Once we know it works for you, I can build a cleaned up patch set and ask for it to be pulled to the main v4l-dvb repo. I'd still like to fix (and have you test) the EEPROM dump after we know the DVB-T changes are good. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
