Public bug reported: The crystalhd-dkms package was removed from the source package back in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- branches/ubuntu/wily/crystalhd/wily/revision/7
> * Remove dkms package which contained buggy driver. > Driver already existed in mainline kernel. Any issues with the driver > should be directed to the kernel package. > (Closes: #682252) > (Closes: #699470) The crystalhd module has *not* been included in the mainline kernel for about 2 years, since it was removed from staging in v3.17 (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1408.0/01475.html). In fact, it appears that the version that used to exist in the mainline kernel was much older and basically abandoned. It only supported the BCM70012 chip, not the more featureful and useful BCM70015: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/tree/drivers/staging/crystalhd?h=v3.16 The CrystalHD hardware is still useful and functional with recent kernels. I have an old Atom-based mini-PC which still plays HD video nicely thanks to the BCM crystalhd decoder card. Over at Github, we've updated the driver source to build correctly under more recent kernels. https://github.com/dbason/crystalhd I'm currently using https://github.com/dbason/crystalhd/tree/82f4477b579b88fc9168b23c6c259598b3678fce with xenial/16.04 and the 4.4.0-21 kernel. -- It would be great to release updated crystalhd-dkms packages to make this still-useful hardware more accessible to other Ubuntu users. I am not very clear on the packaging conventions that I would need to follow in order to update the current package. ** Affects: crystalhd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: needs-packaging -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579216 Title: why was crystalhd-dkms package removed? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crystalhd/+bug/1579216/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
