[pvrusb2] pvrusb2 Digest, Vol 51, Issue 8

[Joel Mayer]

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  Today's Topics:

     1. Re: Completely new fwextract.pl (Mike Isely)


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  Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:12:01 -0600 (CST)
  From: Mike Isely <isely at isely.net<mailto:isely at isely.net>>
  Subject: Re: [pvrusb2] Completely new fwextract.pl
  To: Communications nexus for pvrusb2 driver <pvrusb2 at isely.net<mailto:pvrusb2 at isely.net>>
  Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0911141111010.6076 at ivanova.isely.net<mailto:alpine.DEB.1.10.0911141111010.6076 at ivanova.isely.net>>
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  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<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
  > 
  > How To Install?

  Dear Mister Isely-

  I have both versions of your firmware extractor and both versions of
  Steve Toth's drivers sitting idle on my desktop. The last time I
  commented you replied- "My extractor is a Perl script. If you have
  Perl installed my extractor will do its job automagically."

  I went in to the software library on my SuSE 11.1 install DVD 
  through Yast. There are well over a hundred Perl this and Perl that
  options which I am able to install. More specifically (you are typing
  with a noob) which: sub-assembly, or module, or component, of Perl
  should I install?

  Thanks / Joel Mayer





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