On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 23:00 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > The first drawback can be countered by the fact that ivtv is still an > > unofficial driver with a 0.x version number. People using it should > > expect some changes every now and then. (So I hope to get this change > > accepted before ivtv is included in the main kernel). > > It won't be before 2.6.17 at the earliest before ivtv is in shape for > such a step. And this is very optimistic indeed. But it is the working goal right now, even if it is a fairly long term goal? > > > > > The second drawback is just an extra motivation for people to update > > their kernel, so I wouldn't take it too serious. > > > > If people have no big objections I will implement a patch that does > > these changes and post it here. > > Sure! Please make a ticket for it and attach the patch > (ivtvdriver.org/trac). That way it isn't lost in the noise. I assume I make the patch against trunk? or 0.5.0? > > > > > Regards, > > > > Sigmund A. Helberg > > > > P.S the README.devices say the maximum number of cards is 12. We > > failed even booting with more than 8, is this because of the pvr350 > > itself, or is it a problem with the chipset on our box? Someone > > mentioned something about lacking interrupt sharing. > > Interrupt sharing should work fine. Does the boot fail as soon as the > ivtv driver is loaded? If it's before that then it has nothing to do > with ivtv. We managed to go from 5 to 8 cards by modifing the driver, so the problem with more than 8 cards is definitly not in the driver. I have not personally tried this excersice (and will not be able to, unfortunatly), but from what I understand it did not even get past POST. > And how do you manage to cram more than 8 pvr350 cards into > one PC? Very simply by using a pc with more than 8 pci slots. > Note that the ivtv-fb driver is probably buggy when used with > more than 1 PVR350 (globals in the driver, haven't gotten around to > removing them), so you shouldn't load that one. We haven't used it at least, if "modprobe ivtv" will drag it in as well it is probably some there, but I don't think it is
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