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Bug#644789: marked as done (ITP: uhd -- Universal Hardware Driver for Universal Software Radio Peripherals)

Your message dated Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:18:15 +0000
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and subject line Bug#644789: fixed in uhd 3.3.1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #644789,
regarding ITP: uhd -- Universal Hardware Driver for Universal Software Radio Peripherals
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "A. Maitland Bottoms" <bottoms@debian.org>

* Package name    : uhd-host
  Version         : 3.2.4
  Upstream Author : Ettus Research LLC
* URL             :
  http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: C, Python
  Description     : UHD - Universal Hardware Driver for Universal Software Radio Peripherals

For those who remember the usrper application and libusrp* packages,
those days are behind us. The UHD library handles both the USB
attached USRP1 and ethernet connected USRP2 devices, and newer
devices. It replaces the old libusrp1* and libusrp2* stuff.

The good news is that the new firmware for the network attached
devices actually does UDP/IP - rather than the raw ethernet protocol
used by the libusrp2* drivers. Part of what makes that possible is
that the FPGA uses a DFSG free BSD style license for an embedded ZPU
processor. So here we have free software drivers communicating via
TCP/UDP to free hardware which is running embedded free software
compiled by a free modification to the free GNU Compiler Collection.

The bad news is that the older USB connected boards made use of FX2
USB hardware, and programming of that hardware requires the non-free
part of the sdcc compiler. In addition, actually instantiating a free
ZPU processor on a FPGA requires proprietary tools from the FPGA
manufacturer. Even the USRP1 source is closely tied to the proprietary
Altera tools. So the end result is that the generated firmware, even
though it comes from freely available and even DFSG free source code,
ends up being in Debian's contrib repository instead of main.

The ugly news is that firmware developer's "preferred form of the work
for making modifications to it" often includes proprietary
vendor-specific sections. Only natural, considering that the resulting
firmware will be used by that vendor's hardware. So here we have a
source package that defines a device/driver interface that is, on the
whole, free software. However, parts of the source are constrained by
the available proprietary vendor tools. So while modification is
allowed to support similar hardware with other vendors, some portions
of the source code are not useful for that task.

The UHD packages cover the same issues as the previous GNU Radio
packages. Perhaps one reason for the similarity is that so many of the
same people are involved in the development of both packages.

The Road ahead might include UHD driver support for openHPSDR project
hardware. This would be a milestone, and would demonstrate the
convergence of the GNU project GPL licensed gnuradio software and the
TAPR OHL (Open Hardware License) hardware pioneered by TAPR and the
openHPSDR project.

-Maitland

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Source: uhd
Source-Version: 3.3.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
uhd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libuhd-dev_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  to main/u/uhd/libuhd-dev_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
libuhd003_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  to main/u/uhd/libuhd003_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
uhd-host_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
  to main/u/uhd/uhd-host_3.3.1-1_amd64.deb
uhd_3.3.1-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/u/uhd/uhd_3.3.1-1.debian.tar.gz
uhd_3.3.1-1.dsc
  to main/u/uhd/uhd_3.3.1-1.dsc
uhd_3.3.1.orig.tar.gz
  to main/u/uhd/uhd_3.3.1.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 644789@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org> (supplier of updated uhd package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:00:49 -0500
Source: uhd
Binary: uhd-host libuhd003 libuhd-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.3.1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
Changed-By: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
Description: 
 libuhd-dev - universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products
 libuhd003  - universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products
 uhd-host   - universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products
Closes: 644789
Changes: 
 uhd (3.3.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * Keep up, rebase package with release_003_003_001 tag
   * Packaged for Debian (Closes: #644789)
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