PCTV nanoStick T2 in stock - Driver work?
Hello
The DVB-T2 USB stick appears to be in stock in the UK.
Play.com, Dabs and Amzon.co.uk list it as in stock.
Is there any work started on a driver at this point?
If no work has started, would a loan/donation of a stick help?
What can be done to trigger/accelerate the provision of a driver?
Nico
Quoted 7 lines · Nicolas Will
Hello
The DVB-T2 USB stick appears to be in stock in the UK.
Quoted 7 lines
Play.com, Dabs and Amzon.co.uk list it as in stock.
Is there any work started on a driver at this point?
If no work has started, would a loan/donation of a stick help?
What can be done to trigger/accelerate the provision of a driver?
Somebody would have to break down and reverse engineer the Sony T2 demod. I saw something over in mythtv-users where somebody took a unit apart and photographed it, and he's suggested that he's started working on a driver.
http://stevekerrison.com/290e/index.html
Devin
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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com
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Quoted 7 lines · Nicolas Will
Hello
The DVB-T2 USB stick appears to be in stock in the UK.
Quoted 7 lines
Play.com, Dabs and Amzon.co.uk list it as in stock.
Is there any work started on a driver at this point?
If no work has started, would a loan/donation of a stick help?
What can be done to trigger/accelerate the provision of a driver?
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Somebody would have to break down and reverse engineer the Sony T2 demod. I saw something over in mythtv-users where somebody took a unit apart and photographed it, and he's suggested that he's started working on a driver.
http://stevekerrison.com/290e/index.html
Devin
That would be me :)
I have indeed, but don't have much to speak of seeing as when I started I'd never touched Linux kernel-space driver development.
At the moment I have hardware and usb data from myself and others. I'm hoping to publish some code that at least initialises the device with the Sony demod code stub'd so that I and whoever wants to join me, can attempt to get the demod to spit out some transport streams :)
Donations won't get sony to give me the datasheet, so none requested right now.
I actually have a free weekend coming up (a rare occurrence) in which I hope to make some further progress...
Or the short answer: No hardware/donations needed, but things might take a while!
Regards,
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Steve Kerrison MEng Hons. http://stevekerrison.com/
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That would be me :)
I have indeed, but don't have much to speak of seeing as when I started I'd never touched Linux kernel-space driver development.
At the moment I have hardware and usb data from myself and others. I'm hoping to publish some code that at least initialises the device with the Sony demod code stub'd so that I and whoever wants to join me, can attempt to get the demod to spit out some transport streams :)
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Donations won't get sony to give me the datasheet, so none requested right now.
I actually have a free weekend coming up (a rare occurrence) in which I hope to make some further progress...
Or the short answer: No hardware/donations needed, but things might take a while!
I could probably get it bootstrapped but without a signal source it would be very annoying (and I am not really willing to spend the three grand to pick up a T2 generator).
That said, if you have any issues with the em2874 driver or questions about the hardware layout (I probably have the schematic kicking around here somewhere), let me know.
Devin
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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com