[pvrusb2] Completely new fwextract.pl

[Mike Isely]

I've now updated the "official" download copy of fwextract.pl and 
updated the online driver documentation to be consistent with the new 
abilities of the extraction program.

  -Mike


On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Mike Isely wrote:

> 
> The new fwextract.pl is in good enough shape for others to try if 
> interested.  Please grab from here:
> 
> http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract_new.pl
> 
> Normal operation is the same as before.  But the internals are almost 
> completely different.  Take a look at the program, specifically at the 
> end of the file and you'll see how its firmware database is held now.  
> The neat effect from this is that to apply "new" information to it, one 
> only needs to append the additional records directly to the end of the 
> script itself.
> 
> And now when you train it on a new driver package, it will also 
> automatically look for instances of all previously known firmware 
> images, not just the results of the manual extraction process.  This 
> means that the training process can frequently succeed even if you skip 
> all the tedious manual stuff up front!  (Yay!)
> 
> There's a lot of other stuff this program can do in support of its 
> reorganization.  But if you're really curious poke around the code 
> (search for "GetOptions" to see where the command line options are 
> recognized).  I'll see about getting the online documentation updated to 
> describe the new stuff.  But with that said, the existing documentation 
> is pretty much still accurate, i.e. extraction works as before and the 
> full training process still works (though the data it emits is much more 
> compact now).
> 
>   -Mike
> 
> 

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