Re: GSoC - Final DVB update

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Jeremy Morse wrote:
> This is an update for the GSoC DVB framework project - some more
> information at the link below [0].
>
> In the previous status email, the user facing API had been written and
> was working with a test driver - since then I've improved some
> portions of this to eliminate some races, but otherwise this part is
> not significantly changed.
>
> The majority of my time has been used in getting data out of a test
> device I've been using - luckily a GPL driver is available, which I've
> modified to work under NetBSD. Unfortunately a lack of ehci isoc
> support in NetBSD prevented any transport stream data being read from
> the device, which lead to me spending two weeks implementing this
> feature. (The ehci code produced for this has now been merged with
> -current).

I should probably mention here that thanks to this effort we can say 
that we were the first BSD to support hi-speed isochronous transfers. 
Your code has already made its way over to the OpenBSD tree -- you 
should be proud :)

> All this has added up to being able to watch DVB Television on NetBSD,
> although there's little/no support for any DVB hardware.
>
> Looking to the future, I'd like to get some userland applications that
> support LinuxTV to use it under NetBSD, VLC or MythTV for example.

Thanks Jeremy, fantastic work.

I know that many DVB tuners also have analog capture parts in them -- 
would you be interested in extending our new V4L2 code to support analog 
TV tuners as well after we get your DVB code merged?

Cheers,
Jared