FreeBSD 4.9 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 Driver Patch

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> > > I think it should eventually be committed to the tree.
> > 
> > May make some sense assuming the driver works, the current
> > implementation doesn't offend anyone, and the driver doesn't
> > require a lot of maintenance.  I'm not sure what the policy
> > is for accepting additional drivers into the tree.
> 
> You get a commiter (like me) to take interest in your work, and work
> with you to make it committable and get it committed..  I haven't taken
> a look at the driver yet, but at a minimum it'll need to be brought up
> to 5.x (newbus) rev... 

I noticed from the original post that some firmware magic is required.
Will we need to distribute firmware files, and if so, what sort of
licensing implications are there?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research