From nahas.sylvain at addi-data.com Fri Jan 18 11:06:31 2008 From: nahas.sylvain at addi-data.com (Sylvain Nahas) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:06:31 +0100 Subject: Proposal for cooperation Message-ID: <1200654391.21103.1.camel@SW06-LINUX> Dear Linux Driver Project project managers, ADDI-DATA GmbH develops (among other) high-precision, high-availability PCI boards for industrial use (measurement and process- control ) We offers since some years now ?out-of-tree? Linux drivers for our PCI boards. We are wishing to progressively push support for our hardware in the mainline kernel. The objective is that for our customers the ADDI-DATA Linux experience be ?it just works out of the box?. To achieve this goal, we need the help of kernel hackers. Now a point about the current state of affair: * We currently have Linux support for 50 boards, which makes 18 drivers, at various levels of maturity and completeness of functionalities. Offered functionalities are mainly digital and analogue I/O * The code is not Linux coding-style compliant. * All of these drivers are GPL-ed. * Most of the communication with user-space is done through ioctl() calls. There are no generic kernel subsystems that we are aware of that addresses the problematic of our kind of hardware. Probably developing such subsystems would help other vendors as well and improve the kernel. * User API backward compatibility at source-code level is wished but may be dropped if there are good reasons for it (for example: integration in a generic framework instead of current custom tailored solutions) * We expect this experience to also be the occasion for us to increase our skill level and offer (yet) better Linux support in the future. I was thinking to begin with simple drivers. I will be for now the main correspondent for this project, along with my colleague Julien Krauth. Please feel free to contact me. I am looking forward for your answer, Sylvain Nahas -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Sylvain Nahas Software Abteilung nahas.sylvain at addi-data.com ----------------------------------------------------- ADDI-DATA GmbH Dieselstrasse 3 D-77833 Ottersweier Germany Tel.: +49/7223 94 93 0 Fax.: +49/7223 94 93 92 http://www.addi-data.com ------------------------------------------------------ ADDI-DATA GmbH - Dieselstra?e 3 - 77833 Ottersweier (Germany) Amtsgericht Mannheim HRB210433 Gesch?ftsf?hrer Antonio Agnetti, Ren? Ohlmann UST-ID-Nr.: DE 143754253 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 65862200 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. From greg at kroah.com Thu Jan 24 00:49:24 2008 From: greg at kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:49:24 -0800 Subject: Out-Of-Tree-Driver-proposal: Eumex-family In-Reply-To: <47442EA1.90604@gmx.net> References: <47442EA1.90604@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20080124004924.GC21687@kroah.com> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:12:01PM +0100, Michael Veeck wrote: > Hi everybody, > sorry for sending this to greg and this list. but I thought about the > ISDN-telephone-system "Eumex 504 USB" I have at my home. Besides the > standard telephone ports it also offers one USB-port for connecting your > PC just like a normal ISDN-modem. Alas, DeutscheTelekom, who sold it > along with their ISDN-accounts) only offers Windows-Driver so people are > stuck here with that OS. > > Somebody already started to develop a driver for the whole family of > Eumex-devices at http://sourceforge.net/projects/eumex/ but this code > seems unfinished and wont probably be ready for inclusion in mainline. > So if any german developer is in your list of work-seeking developers he > might be capable of helping that project. As there isn't support from the company, and there are no specs for this device, it's a little bit outside of the range of what we are able to work on, sorry. But feel free to post this to the devel list so that if anyone there wants to work on it, they can find out about it. thanks, greg k-h From greg at kroah.com Thu Jan 24 00:48:08 2008 From: greg at kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:08 -0800 Subject: HP Visualize FX10 graphics In-Reply-To: <680fab6c0711222127p7540fd7icb9eac37eb86f2d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <680fab6c0711222127p7540fd7icb9eac37eb86f2d0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080124004808.GB21687@kroah.com> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:57:44AM +0530, Shashikiran Ganesh wrote: > Hello, > > The HP VIsualize FX10 graphics accelerator has linux support but the > last supported version dates from the days of RedHat 7.2 (see link > below) > I am currently using the system with redhat 7.3 on the HP Visualize PL > workstation (1GHz dual CPU with 2GB RAM). > > The link to the HP fx5/fx10 Xserver, OpenGL, device driver and kernel > module is below: > http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=wk258mu&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN > > Would be nice if the driver could be updated to the 2.6 series. > However, it uses HP's Xhp graphics server in addition and I am not > sure if that would work in the 2.6 series. HP themselves have not > responded to requests for updates/more information. As this is going to require more work than just a kernel driver, and the company doesn't seem to support this anymore, it is going to be a very hard product to get working. Do you know of any X developers that would be also willing to help out with this? Do you know why HP hasn't just done this work already? Or is it an abandonded product? If the company doesn't care anymore, there is very little incentive for us to also care :( thanks, greg k-h From greg at kroah.com Thu Jan 24 23:03:50 2008 From: greg at kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:03:50 -0800 Subject: [PRJ009] Project manager needed for a Linux DVB development effort Message-ID: <20080124230350.GA29704@kroah.com> Hi all, We have a few new projects starting up again. This is the first of a few, and the farthest along right now. I'm looking for a project manager for a driver for a DVB driver. It will integrate with the V4L subsystem, and I think it also contains some firewire interaction. Ideally the project manager will know what DVB is, and can test stuff out (that rules out almost everyone in the USA, as DVB isn't availble there...) Anyone want to run this one? thanks, greg k-h From mchehab at infradead.org Fri Jan 25 06:35:55 2008 From: mchehab at infradead.org (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [PRJ009] Project manager needed for a Linux DVB development effort In-Reply-To: <20080124230350.GA29704@kroah.com> References: <20080124230350.GA29704@kroah.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Greg KH wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a few new projects starting up again. This is the first of a > few, and the farthest along right now. > > I'm looking for a project manager for a driver for a DVB driver. It > will integrate with the V4L subsystem, and I think it also contains some > firewire interaction. > > Ideally the project manager will know what DVB is, and can test stuff > out (that rules out almost everyone in the USA, as DVB isn't availble > there...) > > Anyone want to run this one? I may help on this. I have here DVB-S. -- Cheers, Mauro From greg at kroah.com Mon Jan 28 19:39:44 2008 From: greg at kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:39:44 -0800 Subject: Proposal for cooperation In-Reply-To: <1200654391.21103.1.camel@SW06-LINUX> References: <1200654391.21103.1.camel@SW06-LINUX> Message-ID: <20080128193944.GG5109@kroah.com> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:06:31PM +0100, Sylvain Nahas wrote: > Dear Linux Driver Project project managers, > > ADDI-DATA GmbH develops (among other) high-precision, high-availability > PCI boards for industrial use (measurement and process- control ) We > offers since some years now ???out-of-tree??? Linux drivers for our PCI > boards. > > We are wishing to progressively push support for our hardware in the > mainline kernel. The objective is that for our customers the ADDI-DATA > Linux experience be ???it just works out of the box???. To achieve this > goal, we need the help of kernel hackers. Great! > Now a point about the current state of affair: > > * We currently have Linux support for 50 boards, which makes 18 drivers, > at various levels of maturity and completeness of functionalities. > Offered functionalities are mainly digital and analogue I/O > > * The code is not Linux coding-style compliant. That is easy to fix. > * All of these drivers are GPL-ed. Great. > * Most of the communication with user-space is done through ioctl() > calls. There are no generic kernel subsystems that we are aware of that > addresses the problematic of our kind of hardware. Probably developing > such subsystems would help other vendors as well and improve the kernel. Hm, that might be more of a problem, but in the end, probably not really, lots of "custom" interfaces are in a number of different drivers in the kernel tree today just fine. > * User API backward compatibility at source-code level is wished but may > be dropped if there are good reasons for it (for example: integration in > a generic framework instead of current custom tailored solutions) Do you have any documentation on what your current interface is, and how you use it? Or a pointer to your current drivers would also probably suffice. > * We expect this experience to also be the occasion for us to increase > our skill level and offer (yet) better Linux support in the future. > > I was thinking to begin with simple drivers. > > I will be for now the main correspondent for this project, along with my > colleague Julien Krauth. > Please feel free to contact me. Great, welcome to the project. So, what do you want to do to start with? Do you want to take a single driver of yours, get it cleaned up and into the tree? Would that be a good first step? thanks, greg k-h