Re: bttv-driver: help required with new card

[Gerd Knorr]

>  I have a framegrabber to work with linux (2.4.18). It's a BT878
>  device and I have a lot of questions :(
>  
>  a) It does not use the muxsel-bits in BT848_IFORM but some bits in
>     BT848_GPIO_DATA to select video-input---so seems to be a quite
>     unusual device.
>  
>     Should I make switch(btv->type) statments in bt848_muxsel?

No.  Pick the latest driver and use the muxsel_hook.

>  b) several registers have to be initialised to other values then
>     usual, to make the card work.
>  
>     At the moment I'm doing this in bt848_muxsel, but I would like to
>     move to a place where it is not executed every time I switch input
>     Is init_bt848 the right place?

No.  Have you noticed the bttv-cards.c file?  There is plenty of
card-specific initialization code.  bttv_init_card2() likely is the
proper place.

>  c) It does not identify with PCI_SUBSYSTEM_ID/PCI_SUBSYSTEM_VENDOR_ID
>     (gives 0xffff). Any other way to autodetect it?

Sorry, no.  Use the card=foo insmod option and flame the vendor of the
card.

>  d) Who is the bttv-maintainer?!

/me.

How about reading documentation?  Documentation/video4linux/bttv/ for
example?

  Gerd

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