12:01 <f_> chewitt: Hi. It's been a while. Hope you read this in the chat logs. I wrote a wiki page ( https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Videostrong_KII_Pro_(videostrong-kii-pro)/DVB ), documenting the DVB hardware found on the videostrong kii pro.

12:02 <f_> I found out that it actually uses an Availink AVL6862TA demod + a RafaelMicro R912 tuner.

12:04 <f_> The problem is, I didn't find as much documentation about the R912 tuner as I did with the demod.

12:05 <f_> The demod has drivers, which will (apparently) be soon upstreamed.

12:05 <f_> But all I found about the tuner was old drivers used by CoreELEC and that's about it.

12:55 <HackerKkillinghi> Hey

12:55 <HackerKkillinghi> F

12:58 <HackerKkillinghi> We might able to take a old driver or a wip mainline driver for dvb and hack it to linux-postmaketos-amlogic via patch

13:17 <f_> HackerKkillinghi: I'd like not to do that..

13:17 <f_> That is, taking a downstream driver and using it.

13:19 <f_> And I don't even think it's possible -- the downstream drivers use a lot of stuff from the Amlogic downstream kernel. If we want to use those, we have to modify them a lot and I don't think they can land upstream.

13:19 <f_> But we can use the downstream driver to write a better driver that could eventually land upstream.

13:19 <f_> HackerKkillinghi: Also

13:20 <f_> Those 3 DTS patches are about to get dropped.

13:20 <f_> The 3 KII Pro DTS patches.

13:20 <f_> They got merged into linux-next (IIRC) and they'll eventually land in a brand new linux release.

13:21 <f_> Which means we can drop them once that happens.

13:28 <f_> Also.....https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Videostrong_KII_Pro_(videostrong-kii-pro)/DVB Nice photos....

13:35 <HackerKkillinghi> So

13:35 <HackerKkillinghi> the tree for your kii pro wil get dropped

13:35 <HackerKkillinghi> *will be dropped

13:36 <f_> s/tree/patches/

13:36 <f_> Yup, when they'll land in a new release.

13:38 <f_> When they'll land in a new stable linux release, the patches in the package directory would be quite useless, so we'll drop them.

13:38 <f_> *After upgrading, of course.

13:39 <HackerKkillinghi> Oh

13:40 <HackerKkillinghi> So your kii pro's aduio will work in linux next

13:40 <f_> s/next/stable/

13:40 <f_> Yup, as well as bluetooth.

13:41 <HackerKkillinghi> ok

13:41 <f_> You should really consider upstreaming your Mi Box 3 DTS.

13:41 <f_> So that it lives on, forever.

13:42 <HackerKkillinghi> Actually

13:42 <HackerKkillinghi> I tried to upsteam a amlogic patch

13:43 <HackerKkillinghi> again the bt will work with out the patch

13:43 <f_> When the patch for it will land upstream, yes.

13:44 <HackerKkillinghi> i mean the patch is just making the bt implementation better

13:45 <HackerKkillinghi> so the patch isnt for making your bt work

13:46 <f_> Did it get merged?

13:46 <HackerKkillinghi> Idk

13:46 <f_> Did you provide your real name?

13:47 <HackerKkillinghi> No

13:47 <f_> Then I think it didn't get merged at all..

13:47 <f_> You need to provide your real name if you want to contribute to Linux IIRC.

13:47 <HackerKkillinghi> Oh u are talking about my patch

13:48 <f_> Yeah.

13:48 <HackerKkillinghi> It get suck in the mailing list

13:48 <f_> s/suck/stuck/ ?

13:48 <HackerKkillinghi> Yes

13:49 <HackerKkillinghi> I need some people approval my mail

13:49 <f_> Yeah you need to provide your real name.

13:49 <f_> And you need to sign-off.

13:49 <f_> `git commit -s`

13:50 <HackerKkillinghi> Help

13:50 <HackerKkillinghi> f_:

13:51 <f_> I'm sorry but I can't do anything about it.

13:51 <f_> I never contributed to Linux.

13:51 <HackerKkillinghi> Ah

13:51 <HackerKkillinghi> That is uboot

13:52 <HackerKkillinghi> hey f_

13:53 <HackerKkillinghi> This the scenario of my mail

13:53 <HackerKkillinghi> It has stucked

13:53 <f_> Ok

13:53 <f_> I can't do anything about it, sorry.

13:54 <HackerKkillinghi> Yeah