On Thursday 15 January 2004 14:24, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Niklas Peinecke wrote: > > > > ... > > I agree with Holger. Of course it's better to have a release suitable > > for 2.6, but it will take some more time until 2.6 kernels are really > > common: Most people have working vdr-boxes based on existing 2.4 kernels > > and they just like to use some e-bayed cheap skystar2 as a third card. > > I'm sure they won't like to upgrade their kernels for that. It will also > > take some time until 2.6 is established in dists like LinVDR, thus we > > need a release as a bridge until then. > > I haven't used dvb-kernel yet and also have no 2.6 machine, but > just wanted to drop in my 2 cents: IIRC there was a discussion > a while ago about dvb-kernel being considerably slower in channel > switching than the DVB driver (presumably because of different > I2C handling). Is this still the case (or was it never the case)? > > If dvb-kernel switches channels slower than DVB, I guess this would be > a "no-go" criteria for many people.
I fixed this some time ago. There shouldn't be any difference anymore. For stv0299-based frontends speed is at least as good as with the DVB branch. I don't know whether other frontend drivers need some minor tuning. Oliver -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.