- fixed and tested firmware loading. works like this if you want to do it by hand:

TT Budget-CI with tda10045h:

mount -t sysfs none /sys/
echo "255" > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
depmod -ae;modprobe budget-ci;modprobe tda1004x
<change to another console>
cd /sys/class/firmware/0-0008/
echo "1" > loading ; cat /tmp/tda1004x.bin > data ;echo "0" > loading

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig
index 42d1f5f24..3ca05d76a 100644
--- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/Kconfig
@@ -162,19 +162,6 @@ config DVB_TDA1004X
 	  DVB adapter simply enable all supported frontends, the
 	  right one will get autodetected.
 
-config DVB_TDA1004X_FIRMWARE_FILE
-        string "Full pathname of tda1004x.bin firmware file"
-        depends on DVB_TDA1004X
-        default "/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin"
-        help
-          The TDA1004X requires additional firmware in order to function.
-          The firmware file can obtained as follows:
-            wget http://www.technotrend.de/new/215/TTweb_215a_budget_20_05_2003.zip
-            unzip -j TTweb_215a_budget_20_05_2003.zip Software/Oem/PCI/App/ttlcdacc.dll
-            mv ttlcdacc.dll /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/tda1004x.bin
-	  Note: even if you're using a USB device, you MUST get the file from the
-	  TechnoTrend PCI drivers.
-
 config DVB_NXT6000
 	tristate "Frontends with NxtWave Communications NXT6000 demodulator (OFDM)"
 	depends on DVB_CORE