DABUSB firmware source code has been released this week

Alexandre Oliva lxoliva at fsfla.org
Sun Jan 2 09:04:35 UTC 2011


On Jan  1, 2011, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org> wrote:

> No. this is just the 8051 assembly code (actually the original source
> code developed by the manufacturer, not the result of disassembly of
> the nibary). The FPGA bitstream still does not have the VHDL sources
> available. We can try to convince the manufacturer to release those
> too.

Just to make sure: this means nothing needs to change in Linux-libre
because of this development, right?  I don't know enough about the
firmware files in question to relate what you're saying with them.

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Alexandre Oliva <lxoliva at fsfla.org> wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2010, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> it is available here:
>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg27087.html
>> 
>> Are these the sources corresponding to both binaries in firmware/dabusb?
>> (I don't have the tools handy to verify)

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