[linux-dvb] Re: CVS UNLOCKED

[Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>]

On Thursday 28 Oct 2004 18:49, Holger Waechtler wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> >Hi, its done.
> >
> >I've disabled the cinergyT2 driver for a while as I need to port it to the
> > new architecture.. shouldn't be long though.
>
> I'd like to use this code as testbed fo v5 experiments, thus we bypassed
> the dvb_frontend infrastructure: the direct dvbdev access allows a
> trivial mmap() implementation as discussed some days ago in with John
> Dalgiesh. I'd like to try to go even one step further and mmap both the
> TS ringbuffer and a special memory page containing the current DMA
> pointer, frontend status parameters and the DMA buffer partitioning
> table to userspace. If this works and makes sense it may simplify the
> API while allowing trivial-to-implement v3 backward compability.

Ah I see - OK, I'll leave it alone and uncomment it again.