Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 02:02:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle <john@feith.com> To: robert@fledge.watson.org Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 Driver Patch Message-ID: <200312180702.hBI729a11773@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
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> 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 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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