[linux-dvb] Re: FF cards alter PTS'?

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>
> > Robert Schlabbach wrote:
> >
> > > From: "Niklas Peinecke" <peinecke@gdv.uni-hannover.de>
> > >
> > > > Indeed, but this raises another question: For most of these modern
> > > > cards the manufacturers do not publish the full specs, thus writing
> > > > and maintaining a driver is always a combination of guessing and 
> > > > reverse
> > > > engineering. IMO the "reference" card should always be the 
> > > > cheapest/best
> > > > available card where it's sure that the driver is just optimal. Can 
> > > > this
> > > > be garanteed for cards other than the TT designs?
> > >
> > > AFAIK, the specs for the TT designs have never been published either, 
> > > and
> > > the drivers you have now are the result of guessing and reverse
> > > engineering. I don't see why this shouldn't be repeated for more 
> > > up-to-date
> > > designs than the old TT ones...
> >
> >
> > True - but soembody actually has to _do_ this ;-)
> > Apparently the interest in this isn't high enough, yet...
>
> ?!? what do you mean?
>
> All the mentioned cards are supported by the linux driver and behave 
> like a TT Nova card.
the work is done, at least on the kernel driver side. Thank Peter 
Hettkamp, Florian Schirmer, Andreas Oberritter, Mark Edwards, Jamie 
Honan, Brad Campbell, Felix Domke, Alex Woods, V.C, Peter Schildmann and 
all the other ones who contributerd code or helped with their comments 
and ideas on the mailing list getting the alternative cards working in 
the last months and years. I fear we should update the CONTRIBUTORS file 
a little more often.

Holger



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