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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