From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 23:02:21 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 1311C16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from feith1.FEITH.COM (feith1.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B2E43D41 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@feith.com) Received: from jwlab.FEITH.COM (jwlab.FEITH.COM [192.251.93.16]) by feith1.FEITH.COM (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBI72ANh005622; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:02:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from john@localhost) by jwlab.FEITH.COM (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.7) id hBI729a11773; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:02:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:02:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle Message-Id: <200312180702.hBI729a11773@jwlab.FEITH.COM> To: robert@fledge.watson.org Content-Type: text X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-Archived: cashew.FEITH.COM cc: mat@hak.cnd.mcgill.ca cc: gurney_j@efn.org 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 List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:02:21 -0000 > 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? The firmware is in the Microsoft Windows drivers supplied with the board. Included with the FreeBSD driver is a utility to extract a copy of the firmware from the Microsoft Windows driver so the FreeBSD driver can download it to the board during startup. Ideally the FreeBSD driver distribution should include a version of firmware, however I haven't gotten around to talking to Hauppauge about the licensing issues. I also want to see if they can supply some pointers regarding programming the board to encode VBI information (currently the FreeBSD driver throws away the VBI information). Anyone have contacts at Hauppauge they care to share or contact on my behalf? -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Feith Systems | Voice: 1-215-646-8000 | Email: john@feith.com | | John Wehle | Fax: 1-215-540-5495 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------