Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:01:13 +0100 From: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver for Asus P7131 and other SAA-based cards ? (was Re: kbtv2 sound saa.c -- And BETA3 available) Message-ID: <200803070001.13563.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <20080305175530.6bnix17f40c8go48@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <web-15092307@bcgp02.nicmail.ru> <20080305090704.GA24762@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20080305175530.6bnix17f40c8go48@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:55:30 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Luigi Rizzo <luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> (from Wed, 5 Mar 2008 > > I am not sure all these things belong in the kernel - they > > are not IO or CPU intensive, and it would be a lot more flexible to > > handle them through userland programs that issue appropriate IOCTL > > to play with the internal i2c bus or card registers. > > > > In this respect, I am leaning towards a userland approach rather > > than adding a lot of stuff to the current saa.ko driver > > I agree. > > Bye, > Alexander. I very much agree with this too. It just makes more sense. I don't think there's ever going to be one general/generic tuner (tuner-dbv-x) lib though. Some umbrella with common iic stuff that provides an API (read: simple ioctl header file as in /usr/include/tv_tuner.h) for making common stuff standardized (like probing for TDA on known address, probing for tuner address, etc) would be an improvement already and decrease wheel-reinvention. Cheers, Dan
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