[pvrusb2] New fwextract.pl available

[Mike Isely]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Mike Isely wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, roger wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing similar (also have the old 29xx device).
> > 
> > Try the ./fwextract.pl--search option?
> > 
> > I would say, the latest inf zip file should also have the 29xx firmware
> > as well.  It wouldn't make sense for Hauppauge to only release the 24xx
> > firmware for the inf file update. (Unless they're trying to get us to
> > buy the newer 24xx device ;-) ...
> 
> I don't think that the current driver package from Hauppauge supports the 
> 29xxx devices.  Realize that what they are selling now are the 24xxx 
> devices.  However I can look into this a little more closely (i.e. plug in 
> a 29xxx device in Windows and see if it gets initialized then do another 
> manual extraction pass on it all and use that to find the other firmware).
> 
>   -Mike

I was wrong!

I just ran the manual extraction procedure on the same Hauppauge driver 
package (pvrusb2_inf_24117.zip) but this time I used it with a 29xxx 
device.  The device worked in Windows.  And the extraction indeed found 
the FX2 firmware for 29xxx devices.  So this driver package works for 
either type of device and it includes firmware for both.  I'm updating 
fwextract.pl now to recognize this and extract appropriately.  I'm also 
updating the web documentation to indicate that it's possible to actually 
get both types of firmware from the same driver.  I wonder now if I go 
back to the older 24xxx driver package(s) if I'm going to discover the 
same thing.  Hmmm....

There will probably be a new standalone snapshot as well.  No driver 
fixes, but this is a pretty important fwextract.pl update and I also ended 
up solving a few latent bugs in the decode_log utility along the way.

  -Mike

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