On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:27:28PM -0500, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:10:42PM -0600, Adam Forsyth wrote: > > On 11/16/05, Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we should put the old method of loading from /lib/modules back > > > into ivtv-0.4.1. It's not that much code and it's not really in the > > > way. Opinions? Just for the record: 0.5.x will only support the hotplug > > > method. > > > > Jut a note from the other thread: having hotplug only will prevent > > people from putting ivtv into their initrd images so they can use the > > xdriver and graphical boot to get their boot messages on their TVs. > > I think that's a very important asset for the PVR industry. The ivtv > based systems on PVR-250 (e.g. SageTV) like to get a framebuffer early > to splash their Logo and some progress information. Home > perfectionists will probably do the same, and some are abusing swsusp2 > with fb splashing for "instanton" systems.
The reccomended way of dealing with this sort of thing is to build the firmware into the driver. The size involved in this case makes that undesireable though. I think newer initramfs startup builders like mkinitramfs and yaird include udev (which is totally replacing hotplug) in the image, which may solve this. -- Tyler Trafford _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
