On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:07, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:13:51AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > A lot of work is going into 0.5.0 in order to move the saa7115,
> > saa7127 and cx25840 modules to the v4l repository and then to the
> > 2.6.15 kernel. The wm8775 and cs53l32a are already moved over.
> >
> > Since there is only a relatively small window of opportunity to get
> > big new things into the kernel we are hard at work making the last
> > changes.
> >
> > The planning is to finish this this week. When it's all done I
> > expect to release 0.5.0 quickly afterwards so people can start
> > testing. It's an unstable release so it's really to shake out any
> > remaining problems.
> >
> > I am not yet sure if I'll release 0.6.0 afterwards as the new
> > stable version or if I'll wait until 2.6.15 is released. We'll see.
> > Depends also on the problems we'll find I guess.
>
> It would be nice to have a release of ivtv that will match what is in
> the kernel, so we can compare later on w/o having something like
> 0.4.1 < 2.6.15 < 0.6.0.
That's my intention. A lot changed, though, in the API between the ivtv
driver proper and the video/audio drivers. So it's a fairly big chunk
of work.
> And if we want to tag whatever lands in the kernel as stable, then it
> should be a 0.6.x release. OTOH if only some parts make it into
> 2.6.15 then we should still have a release, but we could label it
> 0.5.x.
No. The tag is for the ivtv driver. The video/audio drivers have been
stable for quite some time now (with the exception of the newer
cx25840). Once the audio/video drivers are moved to v4l then they are
promptly removed from ivtv 0.5.0. Once they are all out 0.5.0 is
released to see how well it compiles on all sorts of different kernel
versions. And besides I need time to sync 0.4.1 with 0.5.0. And I want
to take some more time for bug fixing in general. Basically I think it
is a good idea to try to sync 0.4.1 and 0.5.1, fix bugs and then
release both versions simultaneously.
> It would be nice though to have a release that will still build on
> kernels <= 2.6.15, e.g. if some or all helpers have moved to the
> kernel to keep a copy in the release.
It should compile using the v4l repository. That's where the audio/video
drivers will come from for the 0.5 series.
Hans
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