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availink / amlogic_meson_dvb4linux

Availink demod (and tuner) Linux drivers for Amlogic Meson SoC
GNU General Public License v2.0
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firmware files should go into linux-firmware repo #1

Open moham96 opened 4 years ago

moham96 commented 4 years ago

Hi, I'm very much interested in your effort to open source your drivers and hopefully have them all in mainline linux. one issue is that linux maintainers require that the firmware files be sent to the linux-firmware repo before any driver can use them so you should clone the linux-firmware repo and add all of your firmwares in a subdirectory.

Regards

avonancken commented 4 years ago

Thank you for your interest and encouragement. We will certainly submit the firmware to the linux-firmware repo before we try to submit our drivers to the mainline. We are in the middle of some major refactoring in preparation of submission to the mainline. It will be awhile before we are ready for that step. We will check in our incremental progress on our 'development' branch and we will merge working revisions to the 'master' branch. We will eventually tag master branch revisions that have been run though more extensive verification testing.

chewitt commented 4 years ago

FYI, upstream will want to see evidence of a serious upstreaming effort (or better, a merged driver) before they accept firmware submissions. It's a bit chicken vs. egg :)