get_dvb_firmware perl script and the present Xceive firmware extraction scripts

linux-dvb CityK 1 participant 1 message Feb 7, 2008 Media (V4L/DVB)

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2008-02-07 16:25 UTC #0 lore raw

Just a thought about some possible "consolidation / elimination of fragmentation / consistency " meant to benefit the end user. How about adding to the get_dvb_firmware script (
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/tip/linux/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware
) a section for:

a) XC5000 firmware
- add a download of the firmware ... "wget
http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip"
- and actually add/merge Steve's forty_some_line XC5000 firmware extraction script, "extract.sh" ( presently found here:
http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/ )

b) XC2028/3208 firmware
- add a download of the firmware ... "wget
http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip"
- then add a call to Mauro's XC2028/3208 extraction script, "extract_xc3028.pl" (found here:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/tip/linux/Documentation/video4linux/extract_xc3028.pl
) for the actual extraction ... all seamless, and behind the scenes).

That way, DVB users would only need know/worry about the one script --> get_dvb_firmware i.e.:

# path/get_dvb_firmware xc5000
# path/get_dvb_firmware xc3028

Any licensing/distribution point of restriction I'm overlooking? Nothing mentioned on stoth's site to suggest otherwise.