Wrong firmware for ivtv driver

[Peter Schwenke]

I believe that the wrong firmware has been included for the ivtv driver. I haven't actually installed Gutsy on
my MythTV box. However, experience with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/131464 in Feisty will show this is true.

The file is ./ubuntu-firmware/ivtv/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw with file size 262144 bytes.

On http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_pvr150.html there is a download button link which downloads http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/pvr150/cd_pvr150_27.zip

The file DriverA2/HcwFalcn.rom should be the file ./ubuntu-firmware/ivtv/v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw. I have attached that
file to this bug report.

I have checked the ivtv driver in the kernel source code to verify this is still the correct version of the firmware.

in drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-firmware.c see

void ivtv_firmware_versions(struct ivtv *itv)
{
        u32 data[CX2341X_MBOX_MAX_DATA];

        /* Encoder */
        ivtv_vapi_result(itv, data, CX2341X_ENC_GET_VERSION, 0);
        IVTV_INFO("Encoder revision: 0x%08x\n", data[0]);

        if (data[0] != 0x02060039)
                IVTV_WARN("Recommended firmware version is 0x02060039.\n");

and

static int ivtv_firmware_copy(struct ivtv *itv)
{
 IVTV_DEBUG_INFO("Loading encoder image\n");
 if (load_fw_direct(CX2341X_FIRM_ENC_FILENAME,
     itv->enc_mem, itv, IVTV_FW_ENC_SIZE) != IVTV_FW_ENC_SIZE) {

where
#define IVTV_FW_ENC_SIZE (376836)

Which is the size of the version of firmware I recommend

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/131464 for more detail

[Martin Dauskardt (md001)]

yes, the firmware included in Gutsy is not the recommended one.

The recommended firmware version for the ivtv driver is included in http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz
It is indeed a 376836 bytes file.

Unfortunately the ivtv version included in kernel 2.6.22 has a bug, see
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Kernel_2.6.22_firmware_size

@ Ubuntu developers:
I recommend to fix the bug in the next release of the ubuntu 2.6.22-kernel and supply the correct firmware