I've now updated the "official" download copy of fwextract.pl and updated the online driver documentation to be consistent with the new abilities of the extraction program.
-Mike On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Mike Isely wrote: > > The new fwextract.pl is in good enough shape for others to try if > interested. Please grab from here: > > http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract_new.pl > > Normal operation is the same as before. But the internals are almost > completely different. Take a look at the program, specifically at the > end of the file and you'll see how its firmware database is held now. > The neat effect from this is that to apply "new" information to it, one > only needs to append the additional records directly to the end of the > script itself. > > And now when you train it on a new driver package, it will also > automatically look for instances of all previously known firmware > images, not just the results of the manual extraction process. This > means that the training process can frequently succeed even if you skip > all the tedious manual stuff up front! (Yay!) > > There's a lot of other stuff this program can do in support of its > reorganization. But if you're really curious poke around the code > (search for "GetOptions" to see where the command line options are > recognized). I'll see about getting the online documentation updated to > describe the new stuff. But with that said, the existing documentation > is pretty much still accurate, i.e. extraction works as before and the > full training process still works (though the data it emits is much more > compact now). > > -Mike > > -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
