[pvrusb2] firmware

[Peter Hellman]

Alright, it must be a new driver. I'll give it a try,
you'll probably hear from me again, when I'm stuck..

//Peter

Mike Isely wrote:

>The copy of fwextract.pl included with any snapshot from 20060318 and 
>onward should be able to work.  You want to run it on your DriverD2 
>directory.  You can also try it on the root directory of the CD and that 
>will work - however the result will be firmware for the old hardware.
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>It's always possible that you could have a newer driver release in which 
>case fwextract.pl isn't going to find anything.  In that case you (or 
>someone) will have to do the "manual extraction" process but unfortunately 
>the instructions on the web page are incomplete in the context of 
>extracting for the new hardware.  This is because there are three files to 
>extract now and the decode_log step in the process is a little different 
>because of it.  Basically when you run decode_log, it is going to find two 
>firmware files in the snoop output instead of one and it will generate 
>slightly different names that you'll then have to rename to the expect 
>values in order for fwextract to do its search correctly.  I will update 
>those pages but it is still going to be a few more days before I can get 
>to it.
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