On Wednesday 18 March 2015 13:56:07 Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Simon Farnsworth <si...@farnz.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got the misfortune of maintaining a small number of systems that use
> > the cx18 driver for their HVR-1600 cards; I'm just in the process of
> > bringing these systems up to Fedora 21, and have discovered that
> > cx18-firmware was retired.
> >
> > As I'm going to have to maintain the package for work purposes, I'm
> > volunteering to maintain it in Fedora for F21 and later. If anyone's
> > interested in having it available in Fedora, the review request is at:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203379
> 
> These files are included in the upstream linux-firmware git repo.
> 
> [jwboyer@lando linux-firmware]$ git log v4l-cx23418-*
> commit a699eb6997f21d4fc88526754824e90417749db6
> Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 3 07:33:20 2009 -0300
> 
>     Add firmwares for three Conexant chipsets for cx18, cx23885 and cx23840
> 
>     Add firmwares for those V4L/DVB devices:
>         CX23418 PCI Broadcast A/V with MPEG encoder
>         CX25843 sideport Broadcast A/V decoder
>         CX23885 PCI Express Broadcast A/V decoder
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> It would probably make a lot more sense just to get them included in
> the Fedora linux-firmware package.
> 
That sounds like a very good idea to me. I've filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203385 for the attention of the
linux-firmware maintainers.

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Simon Farnsworth

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