On Sunday 22 July 2007 13:51:31 Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:44:15PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 July 2007 13:20:19 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:05:19AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > Try the latest code from the subversion trunk
> > > > (http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/ivtv/trunk.tar.gz?view=tar).
> > > > I've removed the ivtv driver itself from that code so it only
> > > > contains the utilities, ivtv-fb and the saa717x module. This
> > > > should be used for 2.6.22 and up.
> > >
> > > Which is the authoritative driver code (in development, not the
> > > in-kernel) now, v4l-dvb?
> >
> > The authoritative ivtv driver code is v4l-dvb. For ivtv-fb and the
> > saa717x module (for Japanese cards) it is still the svn ivtv trunk
> > repository. I thought about keeping it in svn trunk as well, but
> > I'm happy with the way v4l-dvb works and Mauro (the v4l-dvb lead)
> > merges my changes pretty quickly. So rather then having to keep two
> > trees in sync I decided to develop in v4l-dvb.
> >
> > I hope to get ivtv-fb into 2.6.23 (no guarantees) and in that case
> > ivtv-fb will also be moved to v4l-dvb.
> >
> > A tree including ivtv-fb is already available here:
> >
> > http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/ivtv-fb
> >
> > Note that for kernels >= 2.6.18 and <= 2.6.21 the ivtv-0.10 branch
> > will still be maintained for a substantial amount of time.
>
> And ivtv-1.0.x will be supporting kernel >= 2.6.22? E.g. when several
> fixes make it into ivtv-1.0.x, but only appear at say 2.6.25, would
> we be able to build the module for 2.6.22 still?
That's the idea, yes. In fact, it should be possible to build the
v4l-dvb tree for kernels >= 2.6.12. Never tested, though :-)
Regards,
Hans
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