On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:57:00AM -0500, Andrew Dodd wrote:
> Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> >> This isn't true if you need Samsung tuner support - the kernel 
> >> modules do not
> >> have support for the Samsung TCPN tuner on new PVR-500s, and so in 
> >> the case of
> >> PVR-500 boards with the new Samsung tuner, you have to go back to the
> >> "old way"
> >> of doing things.  Of course, if they're using RPMs that didn't have 
> >> the Kbuild
> >> files modified to build those modules in the first place, things won't work
> >> anyway.
> >
> > The rpms package up what the ivtv buildsystem decides to build for
> > that kernel. E.g. there is no control mechsnism in the rpm layer,
> > you get what you'd get if you would build it yourself.

> This is what I guessed.  The end result is that the RPMs will *not*
> work for anyone who has a Samsung tuner - they will have to manually
> build ivtv themselves.
> 
> > Hans turned off the build of certain kernel modules for 2.6.15
> > because the support is now in the kernel. Did you try the Samsung
> > tuner support with 2.6.15? If ivtv 0.4.2 had better tuner kernel
> > modules than 2.6.15, Hans wouldn't had turned it off.

> No, it makes sense to turn building of ivtv's own tveeprom/tuner
> modules off by default, since they are of no benefit to 95%+ of ivtv
> users

Oh, no, we want 100% !!! :)

> - only those who have Samsung tuners on a recent PVR-500 (not
> supported by the 2.6.15 kernel modules, as Samsung support was added
> in early-to-mid January, which is after 2.6.15's release) have a
> need for the ivtv tuner modules, which is why getting them to build
> requires modifying one of the Kbuild files in the ivtv distribution.

Then that's a bug in ivtv 0.4.2 logic of deciding which kernel modules
to build. I'll look into it.

> The end conclusion is:  Do not try to use precompiled RPMs for a PVR-500 with
> the new Samsung tuner, at least not with kernel 2.6.15 + ivtv 0.4.2.

As I see it 0.4.2 needs an extra functional patch for Samasung & NTSC
and fixing its build targets for 2.6.15 (e.g. including
tuner.ko). Correct?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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