On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 21:25 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:51:18PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > > Can someone confirm that the wheezy distribution for the raspberry Pi does > > not contain the latest incantation of LIRC i.e. the IR support based on the > > rc-core code found in drivers/media/rc? > > > > I want to write a driver for a Raspberry Pi blaster (IR transmitter) and > > was going to start from the rc-core code but canot find any trace of it on > > the Raspberry Pi. > > > > FYI, the distribution I'm using shows the following... > > > > pi@canteenpi ~ $ uname -r > > 3.6.11+ > > pi@canteenpi ~ $ > Are you sure you're using a Debian-Kernel? If not, better ask the > rasbian people (or whereever you got your OS from).
Indeed - as Broadcom still doesn't seem committed to getting the necessary drivers upstream (I realise they've made some attempt), the RPi doesn't and probably never will run Debian official kernel packages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.
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