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authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use. - Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs. - Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers. Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers. - Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns. - Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on boot. - Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan. - Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack. - Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers. 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Netfilter: - Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band /proc interface installed by this target. - Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist. Driver API: - Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right IRQ affinity on AMD platforms. - Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly. - Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress. - Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA) Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of shared medium Ethernet. - Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames. - Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET. - Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and factor out common parts of netlink operation handling. - Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers). - Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning messages with notifications for debug. - Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct. - Add support for per action HW stats in TC. - Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from a specific point in the action chain). - Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to using nl80211 interface instead. - Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling, including the definition of a new default value that will benefit CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance. New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver) - Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs - Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY - onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA) - Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP) - Amlogic gxl MDIO mux - WiFi: - RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu) - Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k) - CAN: - Renesas R-Car V4H Drivers: - Bluetooth: - Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers. - Ethernet NICs: - Intel (1G, igc): - support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model - Intel (100G, ice): - use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY - multi-buffer XDP support - extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices - nVidia/Mellanox: - update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands - implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control - TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload - more efficient crypto key management method - multi-port eswitch support - Netronome/Corigine: - add DCB IEEE support - support IPsec offloading for NFP3800 - Freescale/NXP (enetc): - support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers - improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle - support MAC Merge layer - Other NICs: - sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100 - ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO) - bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA - r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout - cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G - cpts: support pulse-per-second output - ngbe: add an mdio bus driver - usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing - r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support - amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation - virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP - virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff - tsnep: XDP support - Ethernet high-speed switches: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw): - add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages) - Microchip (sparx5): - separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make the implicit rules always active - add support for egress DSCP rewrite - IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification) - IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS etc.) - ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control) - support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q, 8.6.5.1) - Ethernet embedded switches: - Marvell (mv88e6xxx): - add MAB (port auth) offload support - enable PTP receive for mv88e6390 - NXP (ocelot): - support MAC Merge layer - support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys - Microchip: - lan9303: convert to PHYLINK - lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics - lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x - lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration - ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet - other: - qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations - rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi): - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting - STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the BIOS to the firmware. - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - IPQ5018 support - Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support - channel 177 support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - per-PHY LED support - mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support - Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support - switch to using page pool allocator - RealTek WiFi (rtw89): - support new version of Bluetooth co-existance - Mobile: - rmnet: support TX aggregation" * tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits) page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp(). ...
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+The Zoran driver
+================
+
+unified zoran driver (zr360x7, zoran, buz, dc10(+), dc30(+), lml33)
+
+website: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/driver-zoran/
+
+
+Frequently Asked Questions
+--------------------------
+
+What cards are supported
+------------------------
+
+Iomega Buz, Linux Media Labs LML33/LML33R10, Pinnacle/Miro
+DC10/DC10+/DC30/DC30+ and related boards (available under various names).
+
+Iomega Buz
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Philips saa7111 TV decoder
+* Philips saa7185 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, saa7111, saa7185, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite and S-video
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (720x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (720x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 7
+
+AverMedia 6 Eyes AVS6EYES
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Samsung ks0127 TV decoder
+* Conexant bt866 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, ks0127, bt866, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs:
+ Six physical inputs. 1-6 are composite,
+ 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 doubles as S-video,
+ 1-3 triples as component.
+ One composite output.
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (720x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (720x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 8
+
+.. note::
+
+ Not autodetected, card=8 is necessary.
+
+Linux Media Labs LML33
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Brooktree bt819 TV decoder
+* Brooktree bt856 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, bt819, bt856, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite and S-video
+
+Norms: PAL (720x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (720x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 5
+
+Linux Media Labs LML33R10
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Philips saa7114 TV decoder
+* Analog Devices adv7170 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, saa7114, adv7170, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite and S-video
+
+Norms: PAL (720x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (720x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 6
+
+Pinnacle/Miro DC10(new)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36057 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Philips saa7110a TV decoder
+* Analog Devices adv7176 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, saa7110, adv7175, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite, S-video and Internal
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (768x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (640x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 1
+
+Pinnacle/Miro DC10+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36060 MJPEG codec
+* Philips saa7110a TV decoder
+* Analog Devices adv7176 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, saa7110, adv7175, zr36060, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite, S-video and Internal
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (768x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (640x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 2
+
+Pinnacle/Miro DC10(old)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36057 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36050 MJPEG codec
+* Zoran zr36016 Video Front End or Fuji md0211 Video Front End (clone?)
+* Micronas vpx3220a TV decoder
+* mse3000 TV encoder or Analog Devices adv7176 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, vpx3220, mse3000/adv7175, zr36050, zr36016, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite, S-video and Internal
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (768x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (640x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 0
+
+Pinnacle/Miro DC30
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36057 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36050 MJPEG codec
+* Zoran zr36016 Video Front End
+* Micronas vpx3225d/vpx3220a/vpx3216b TV decoder
+* Analog Devices adv7176 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, vpx3220/vpx3224, adv7175, zr36050, zr36016, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite, S-video and Internal
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (768x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (640x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 3
+
+Pinnacle/Miro DC30+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Zoran zr36067 PCI controller
+* Zoran zr36050 MJPEG codec
+* Zoran zr36016 Video Front End
+* Micronas vpx3225d/vpx3220a/vpx3216b TV decoder
+* Analog Devices adv7176 TV encoder
+
+Drivers to use: videodev, i2c-core, i2c-algo-bit,
+videocodec, vpx3220/vpx3224, adv7175, zr36050, zr36015, zr36067
+
+Inputs/outputs: Composite, S-video and Internal
+
+Norms: PAL, SECAM (768x576 @ 25 fps), NTSC (640x480 @ 29.97 fps)
+
+Card number: 4
+
+.. note::
+
+ #) No module for the mse3000 is available yet
+ #) No module for the vpx3224 is available yet
+
+1.1 What the TV decoder can do an what not
+------------------------------------------
+
+The best know TV standards are NTSC/PAL/SECAM. but for decoding a frame that
+information is not enough. There are several formats of the TV standards.
+And not every TV decoder is able to handle every format. Also the every
+combination is supported by the driver. There are currently 11 different
+tv broadcast formats all aver the world.
+
+The CCIR defines parameters needed for broadcasting the signal.
+The CCIR has defined different standards: A,B,D,E,F,G,D,H,I,K,K1,L,M,N,...
+The CCIR says not much about the colorsystem used !!!
+And talking about a colorsystem says not to much about how it is broadcast.
+
+The CCIR standards A,E,F are not used any more.
+
+When you speak about NTSC, you usually mean the standard: CCIR - M using
+the NTSC colorsystem which is used in the USA, Japan, Mexico, Canada
+and a few others.
+
+When you talk about PAL, you usually mean: CCIR - B/G using the PAL
+colorsystem which is used in many Countries.
+
+When you talk about SECAM, you mean: CCIR - L using the SECAM Colorsystem
+which is used in France, and a few others.
+
+There the other version of SECAM, CCIR - D/K is used in Bulgaria, China,
+Slovakai, Hungary, Korea (Rep.), Poland, Rumania and a others.
+
+The CCIR - H uses the PAL colorsystem (sometimes SECAM) and is used in
+Egypt, Libya, Sri Lanka, Syrain Arab. Rep.
+
+The CCIR - I uses the PAL colorsystem, and is used in Great Britain, Hong Kong,
+Ireland, Nigeria, South Africa.
+
+The CCIR - N uses the PAL colorsystem and PAL frame size but the NTSC framerate,
+and is used in Argentinia, Uruguay, an a few others
+
+We do not talk about how the audio is broadcast !
+
+A rather good sites about the TV standards are:
+http://www.sony.jp/support/
+http://info.electronicwerkstatt.de/bereiche/fernsehtechnik/frequenzen_und_normen/Fernsehnormen/
+and http://www.cabl.com/restaurant/channel.html
+
+Other weird things around: NTSC 4.43 is a modificated NTSC, which is mainly
+used in PAL VCR's that are able to play back NTSC. PAL 60 seems to be the same
+as NTSC 4.43 . The Datasheets also talk about NTSC 44, It seems as if it would
+be the same as NTSC 4.43.
+NTSC Combs seems to be a decoder mode where the decoder uses a comb filter
+to split coma and luma instead of a Delay line.
+
+But I did not defiantly find out what NTSC Comb is.
+
+Philips saa7111 TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1997, is used in the BUZ and
+- can handle: PAL B/G/H/I, PAL N, PAL M, NTSC M, NTSC N, NTSC 4.43 and SECAM
+
+Philips saa7110a TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1995, is used in the Pinnacle/Miro DC10(new), DC10+ and
+- can handle: PAL B/G, NTSC M and SECAM
+
+Philips saa7114 TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 2000, is used in the LML33R10 and
+- can handle: PAL B/G/D/H/I/N, PAL N, PAL M, NTSC M, NTSC 4.43 and SECAM
+
+Brooktree bt819 TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1996, and is used in the LML33 and
+- can handle: PAL B/D/G/H/I, NTSC M
+
+Micronas vpx3220a TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1996, is used in the DC30 and DC30+ and
+- can handle: PAL B/G/H/I, PAL N, PAL M, NTSC M, NTSC 44, PAL 60, SECAM,NTSC Comb
+
+Samsung ks0127 TV decoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- is used in the AVS6EYES card and
+- can handle: NTSC-M/N/44, PAL-M/N/B/G/H/I/D/K/L and SECAM
+
+
+What the TV encoder can do an what not
+--------------------------------------
+
+The TV encoder is doing the "same" as the decoder, but in the other direction.
+You feed them digital data and the generate a Composite or SVHS signal.
+For information about the colorsystems and TV norm take a look in the
+TV decoder section.
+
+Philips saa7185 TV Encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1996, is used in the BUZ
+- can generate: PAL B/G, NTSC M
+
+Brooktree bt856 TV Encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1994, is used in the LML33
+- can generate: PAL B/D/G/H/I/N, PAL M, NTSC M, PAL-N (Argentina)
+
+Analog Devices adv7170 TV Encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 2000, is used in the LML300R10
+- can generate: PAL B/D/G/H/I/N, PAL M, NTSC M, PAL 60
+
+Analog Devices adv7175 TV Encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1996, is used in the DC10, DC10+, DC10 old, DC30, DC30+
+- can generate: PAL B/D/G/H/I/N, PAL M, NTSC M
+
+ITT mse3000 TV encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- was introduced in 1991, is used in the DC10 old
+- can generate: PAL , NTSC , SECAM
+
+Conexant bt866 TV encoder
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- is used in AVS6EYES, and
+- can generate: NTSC/PAL, PAL-M, PAL-N
+
+The adv717x, should be able to produce PAL N. But you find nothing PAL N
+specific in the registers. Seem that you have to reuse a other standard
+to generate PAL N, maybe it would work if you use the PAL M settings.
+
+How do I get this damn thing to work
+------------------------------------
+
+Load zr36067.o. If it can't autodetect your card, use the card=X insmod
+option with X being the card number as given in the previous section.
+To have more than one card, use card=X1[,X2[,X3,[X4[..]]]]
+
+To automate this, add the following to your /etc/modprobe.d/zoran.conf:
+
+options zr36067 card=X1[,X2[,X3[,X4[..]]]]
+alias char-major-81-0 zr36067
+
+One thing to keep in mind is that this doesn't load zr36067.o itself yet. It
+just automates loading. If you start using xawtv, the device won't load on
+some systems, since you're trying to load modules as a user, which is not
+allowed ("permission denied"). A quick workaround is to add 'Load "v4l"' to
+XF86Config-4 when you use X by default, or to run 'v4l-conf -c <device>' in
+one of your startup scripts (normally rc.local) if you don't use X. Both
+make sure that the modules are loaded on startup, under the root account.
+
+What mainboard should I use (or why doesn't my card work)
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+<insert lousy disclaimer here>. In short: good=SiS/Intel, bad=VIA.
+
+Experience tells us that people with a Buz, on average, have more problems
+than users with a DC10+/LML33. Also, it tells us that people owning a VIA-
+based mainboard (ktXXX, MVP3) have more problems than users with a mainboard
+based on a different chipset. Here's some notes from Andrew Stevens:
+
+Here's my experience of using LML33 and Buz on various motherboards:
+
+- VIA MVP3
+ - Forget it. Pointless. Doesn't work.
+- Intel 430FX (Pentium 200)
+ - LML33 perfect, Buz tolerable (3 or 4 frames dropped per movie)
+- Intel 440BX (early stepping)
+ - LML33 tolerable. Buz starting to get annoying (6-10 frames/hour)
+- Intel 440BX (late stepping)
+ - Buz tolerable, LML3 almost perfect (occasional single frame drops)
+- SiS735
+ - LML33 perfect, Buz tolerable.
+- VIA KT133(*)
+ - LML33 starting to get annoying, Buz poor enough that I have up.
+
+- Both 440BX boards were dual CPU versions.
+
+Bernhard Praschinger later added:
+
+- AMD 751
+ - Buz perfect-tolerable
+- AMD 760
+ - Buz perfect-tolerable
+
+In general, people on the user mailinglist won't give you much of a chance
+if you have a VIA-based motherboard. They may be cheap, but sometimes, you'd
+rather want to spend some more money on better boards. In general, VIA
+mainboard's IDE/PCI performance will also suck badly compared to others.
+You'll noticed the DC10+/DC30+ aren't mentioned anywhere in the overview.
+Basically, you can assume that if the Buz works, the LML33 will work too. If
+the LML33 works, the DC10+/DC30+ will work too. They're most tolerant to
+different mainboard chipsets from all of the supported cards.
+
+If you experience timeouts during capture, buy a better mainboard or lower
+the quality/buffersize during capture (see 'Concerning buffer sizes, quality,
+output size etc.'). If it hangs, there's little we can do as of now. Check
+your IRQs and make sure the card has its own interrupts.
+
+Programming interface
+---------------------
+
+This driver conforms to video4linux2. Support for V4L1 and for the custom
+zoran ioctls has been removed in kernel 2.6.38.
+
+For programming example, please, look at lavrec.c and lavplay.c code in
+the MJPEG-tools (http://mjpeg.sf.net/).
+
+Additional notes for software developers:
+
+ The driver returns maxwidth and maxheight parameters according to
+ the current TV standard (norm). Therefore, the software which
+ communicates with the driver and "asks" for these parameters should
+ first set the correct norm. Well, it seems logically correct: TV
+ standard is "more constant" for current country than geometry
+ settings of a variety of TV capture cards which may work in ITU or
+ square pixel format.
+
+Applications
+------------
+
+Applications known to work with this driver:
+
+TV viewing:
+
+* xawtv
+* kwintv
+* probably any TV application that supports video4linux or video4linux2.
+
+MJPEG capture/playback:
+
+* mjpegtools/lavtools (or Linux Video Studio)
+* gstreamer
+* mplayer
+
+General raw capture:
+
+* xawtv
+* gstreamer
+* probably any application that supports video4linux or video4linux2
+
+Video editing:
+
+* Cinelerra
+* MainActor
+* mjpegtools (or Linux Video Studio)
+
+
+Concerning buffer sizes, quality, output size etc.
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+
+The zr36060 can do 1:2 JPEG compression. This is really the theoretical
+maximum that the chipset can reach. The driver can, however, limit compression
+to a maximum (size) of 1:4. The reason for this is that some cards (e.g. Buz)
+can't handle 1:2 compression without stopping capture after only a few minutes.
+With 1:4, it'll mostly work. If you have a Buz, use 'low_bitrate=1' to go into
+1:4 max. compression mode.
+
+100% JPEG quality is thus 1:2 compression in practice. So for a full PAL frame
+(size 720x576). The JPEG fields are stored in YUY2 format, so the size of the
+fields are 720x288x16/2 bits/field (2 fields/frame) = 207360 bytes/field x 2 =
+414720 bytes/frame (add some more bytes for headers and DHT (huffman)/DQT
+(quantization) tables, and you'll get to something like 512kB per frame for
+1:2 compression. For 1:4 compression, you'd have frames of half this size.
+
+Some additional explanation by Martin Samuelsson, which also explains the
+importance of buffer sizes:
+--
+> Hmm, I do not think it is really that way. With the current (downloaded
+> at 18:00 Monday) driver I get that output sizes for 10 sec:
+> -q 50 -b 128 : 24.283.332 Bytes
+> -q 50 -b 256 : 48.442.368
+> -q 25 -b 128 : 24.655.992
+> -q 25 -b 256 : 25.859.820
+
+I woke up, and can't go to sleep again. I'll kill some time explaining why
+this doesn't look strange to me.
+
+Let's do some math using a width of 704 pixels. I'm not sure whether the Buz
+actually use that number or not, but that's not too important right now.
+
+704x288 pixels, one field, is 202752 pixels. Divided by 64 pixels per block;
+3168 blocks per field. Each pixel consist of two bytes; 128 bytes per block;
+1024 bits per block. 100% in the new driver mean 1:2 compression; the maximum
+output becomes 512 bits per block. Actually 510, but 512 is simpler to use
+for calculations.
+
+Let's say that we specify d1q50. We thus want 256 bits per block; times 3168
+becomes 811008 bits; 101376 bytes per field. We're talking raw bits and bytes
+here, so we don't need to do any fancy corrections for bits-per-pixel or such
+things. 101376 bytes per field.
+
+d1 video contains two fields per frame. Those sum up to 202752 bytes per
+frame, and one of those frames goes into each buffer.
+
+But wait a second! -b128 gives 128kB buffers! It's not possible to cram
+202752 bytes of JPEG data into 128kB!
+
+This is what the driver notice and automatically compensate for in your
+examples. Let's do some math using this information:
+
+128kB is 131072 bytes. In this buffer, we want to store two fields, which
+leaves 65536 bytes for each field. Using 3168 blocks per field, we get
+20.68686868... available bytes per block; 165 bits. We can't allow the
+request for 256 bits per block when there's only 165 bits available! The -q50
+option is silently overridden, and the -b128 option takes precedence, leaving
+us with the equivalence of -q32.
+
+This gives us a data rate of 165 bits per block, which, times 3168, sums up
+to 65340 bytes per field, out of the allowed 65536. The current driver has
+another level of rate limiting; it won't accept -q values that fill more than
+6/8 of the specified buffers. (I'm not sure why. "Playing it safe" seem to be
+a safe bet. Personally, I think I would have lowered requested-bits-per-block
+by one, or something like that.) We can't use 165 bits per block, but have to
+lower it again, to 6/8 of the available buffer space: We end up with 124 bits
+per block, the equivalence of -q24. With 128kB buffers, you can't use greater
+than -q24 at -d1. (And PAL, and 704 pixels width...)
+
+The third example is limited to -q24 through the same process. The second
+example, using very similar calculations, is limited to -q48. The only
+example that actually grab at the specified -q value is the last one, which
+is clearly visible, looking at the file size.
+--
+
+Conclusion: the quality of the resulting movie depends on buffer size, quality,
+whether or not you use 'low_bitrate=1' as insmod option for the zr36060.c
+module to do 1:4 instead of 1:2 compression, etc.
+
+If you experience timeouts, lowering the quality/buffersize or using
+'low_bitrate=1 as insmod option for zr36060.o might actually help, as is
+proven by the Buz.
+
+It hangs/crashes/fails/whatevers! Help!
+---------------------------------------
+
+Make sure that the card has its own interrupts (see /proc/interrupts), check
+the output of dmesg at high verbosity (load zr36067.o with debug=2,
+load all other modules with debug=1). Check that your mainboard is favorable
+(see question 2) and if not, test the card in another computer. Also see the
+notes given in question 3 and try lowering quality/buffersize/capturesize
+if recording fails after a period of time.
+
+If all this doesn't help, give a clear description of the problem including
+detailed hardware information (memory+brand, mainboard+chipset+brand, which
+MJPEG card, processor, other PCI cards that might be of interest), give the
+system PnP information (/proc/interrupts, /proc/dma, /proc/devices), and give
+the kernel version, driver version, glibc version, gcc version and any other
+information that might possibly be of interest. Also provide the dmesg output
+at high verbosity. See 'Contacting' on how to contact the developers.
+
+Maintainers/Contacting
+----------------------
+
+Previous maintainers/developers of this driver are
+- Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be>
+- Ronald Bultje rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net
+- Serguei Miridonov <mirsev@cicese.mx>
+- Wolfgang Scherr <scherr@net4you.net>
+- Dave Perks <dperks@ibm.net>
+- Rainer Johanni <Rainer@Johanni.de>
+
+Driver's License
+----------------
+
+ This driver is distributed under the terms of the General Public License.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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+
+See http://www.gnu.org/ for more information.