Yeah, that would help as well :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Ok, I should be doing status reports, so here's my first cut at what is happening and what is going on so far. I'll try to do these every few weeks, and I also encourage the project managers of active projects to also do this. First off, I'm going to try to keep the list of current projects up at: http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ProjectStatus but will use email to announce new projects. That page will just be a short summary about the different projects, and what is going on with them. Project managers, feel free to flesh out the individual pages for the projects if you wish. But note, please do not post company information or data sheets unless the company explicitly says it is ok. The majority of the companies working with us don't want the fact that they are using us to be all that public, for various reasons. Currently, I'm talking with about 3-4 new companies about more projects, and am working on a list of external modules that need to get cleaned up and added to the kernel tree that this project can help out with. But what we are really lacking right now is more companies involvement. If anyone can think of a way to drum up more company interest, please let me know. So, here's the current projects, and what is going on with them. Project managers, feel free to add more information. --------- Project 001 Project Manager: Frank <codemonkey@soapweed.com> Summary: At least 3 drivers for a single manufacturer, all i2c devices Current status from what I know: 3 developers have the data sheets and are starting to work on the code. --------- Project 002 Project manager: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Summary: VIOP gateway solution needs a driver Current status: unknown, Jaya, any information? --------- Project 003 Project Manager: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Developer: Brandon Summary: USB and PCI driver for time-stamp device Current Status: Brandon is waiting for the arrival of the hardware, and he has the ...
Sent email on Oct 4th to Carlos Doria and Carlos Rocha (who proposed the project) to find out which specific gateway device/chipset they want to get linux support for. Waiting for response. Thanks, jaya _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Great, thanks for letting us know. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Hi Greg, The last communication i had with Max was on the 9th Nov 2007. He had some confusion how it all would work together and had asked me questions on the same, gave him all the answers what he wanted. I was waiting/expecting datasheets/specifications from him since he wanted to roll out his hardware ASAP. he sent me datasheets for the PCI bridge and the analog parts, but that which there already exists a driver. This was what Max said last: "Thanks for your reply. Got the idea. I will have a look. I am busy in fixing the hardwares around tomorrow so may talk to you later." Haven't heard anything from him after that. Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
I just got a response from him stating that the hardware was taking longer to be released than anticipated, and once it was available, he would be back in contact with you and me. Don't know why he didn't also email you :( thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Let him take his time, not a problem. Better to work on properly working hardware, rather than pulling out hair on broken hardware. Hair is getting Maybe he got too immersed in the hardware aspect and found almost no free time to respond. Even for his DMB-T/H demodulator to be eventually in kernel, it will need the multiproto DVB API updated for multiple delivery systems to work. (Currently the Linux DVB API can support only DVB-S, C, T and ATSC deliveries) Some times to have an API/ABI change, there is so much noise involved and the people who really make the most noise are just "painting the bike shed green" sometimes as referred to on LK and or by the BSD developers, rather than any real contributions. If Max needs it to be there at the earliest, it can be based on the private tree <http://jusst.de/hg/multiproto/> for the DVB-S2 devices, where developments are going on at a hectic manner. Thanks, Manu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
