Developing a package for the TBS 5530

    I know that most time TBS DVB drivers need a kernel update that is real pain to keep update. I recently found this link https://github.com/koreapyj/cxd28xx and with these I can run with just an install which will great. The question is can an LE package include firmware files or would a user need to install them on their own?

    I did ask Claude what a user would lose by not going with the TBS media tree and it is just

    EEPROM read/write — provisioning/diagnostics, irrelevant to tuning.
    FEC_29_45 / 31_45 — two rare S2X code rates that'd report as FEC_NONE; hardware still locks them, purely a cosmetic reporting gap.

    Martin

    Firmware can be added to https://github.com/LibreELEC/dvb-firmware or manually added to /storage/.config/firmware which is overlaid onto /usr/lib/firmware on boot.

    For drivers; someone should just "grow a pair" and have a go at upstreaming the driver bits required. It might some learning and a few iterations to get things into an upstream acceptable condition, but until someone does that (and sadly it looks like it will never be TBS themselves) you're all stuck in downstream purgatory.