From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 22:07:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD97D16A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EA943D58 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:07:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 18612 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2003 06:07:50 -0000 Received: from dsl017-045-168.spk4.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Dec 2003 06:07:50 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (dqtedg@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])hBH67nj2020408; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBH67lAN020407; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:07:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:07:47 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20031217060747.GA559@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Robert Watson , John Wehle , mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca, multimedia@freebsd.org References: <20031210064949.GA54398@funkthat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: John Wehle cc: mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 Driver Patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:07:58 -0000 Robert Watson wrote this message on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 21:24 -0500: > > You get a commiter (like me) to take interest in your work, and work > > with you to make it committable and get it committed.. I haven't taken > > a look at the driver yet, but at a minimum it'll need to be brought up > > to 5.x (newbus) rev... > > I noticed from the original post that some firmware magic is required. > Will we need to distribute firmware files, and if so, what sort of > licensing implications are there? I think that there are ways around the firmware issue, like not distributing it with FreeBSD, but have someone who has the card make it available for "those who already own the card" or something similar. If we want to look at distributing the firmware, possibly a simple request could solve the problem. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."