[vdr] Re: av711x firmware upgrade

[Rainer Zocholl <UseNet-Posting-Nospam-74308-@zocki.toppoint.de>]

werner@suse.de(Dr. Werner Fink)  03.12.04 09:32


>On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:13:58AM +0100, Stefan Taferner wrote:
>> On Friday 03 December 2004 08:58, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:25:00AM +0100, Rainer Zocholl wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> recompling all in linuxtv-dvb-1.1.1/build-2.4 with a "make"
>>>> works without erors but do not help.
>>>
>>> Why recompiling the stuff, make sure that the firmware loader
>>> found the file to load the firmware.
>>>
>>>> How can i detect which firmware file by what driver is when
>>>> loaded?
>>>>
>>>> Is that firma not for Technotrend/Hauppage DBV-S 2.1 PCI card?
>>>>
>>>> 1.3.17 linux 2.4.27
>>
>> Please excuse my ignorance, but does 2.4 kernel have a firmware
>> loader?


# hotplug --help
Usage: /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug AgentName [AgentArguments]
AgentName values on this system:  dasd firmware ieee1394 input net pci scsi tape usb
                                       ~~~~~~~~

Isn't that what i need?
But true, i got a error message 
firmware.agent[15187]: Firmware '' event not supported

(have not investigated in deep because the firmware is loaded) 


>Depends on you configuration of

>      CONFIG_DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE_FILE

>if _not_ defined, 


Is that set automatically when a 2.4 is detected?

I do the dvb make in "build-2.4/"

>the get_firmware() inlined tries to load a firmware file.

>If you have defined this to the name of the firmware file you 
>have to copy the firmware file to the location where fdump 
>generates the appropiate av7110_firm.h.

What is "fdump" ?

# man fdump
No manual entry for fdump

Rainer