On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:56, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:06:16PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > On Friday 10 March 2006 10:18, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > next week FC5 will hit the streets with a 2.6.16-rc5-git9 based > > > > > kernel (or later) and I'd like to offer ivtv packages for it. > > > > > The original plan was to have 0.6 support 2.6.16. Is this still > > > > > current? > > > > > > > > > > Given 0.4.x's stability I wish that 0.4.x could run on 2.6.16. > > > > > :) > > > > > > > > Yes, 0.6 will support 2.6.16 but I wait with the final > > > > implementation until 2.6.16 is officially out. I know that there > > > > is one patch not yet in 2.6.16-rc5 (wrong maximum for contrast > > > > and saturation controls). Linus was asked to apply the patch so > > > > it is likely to appear in the final 2.6.16. If not, then I'll > > > > have to work around it in the driver (it gives problems with > > > > MythTV otherwise). > > > > > > Quick followup: the patch went in and is now part of 2.6.16-rc6. > > > > Thanks for the update! It looks like FC5 will hit the streets with > > 2.6.16-rc5-git13. Do you know whether this already includes the patch > > you need? > > No idea. It's easy to check: look in the file > drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-core.c, search for 'Saturation'. If > the struct has a .maximum value of 255, then it's wrong. It should be > 127.
It's 127 :) :) :) > > > > So the situation is that 0.6 might work with 2.6.16, but I'm not > > > > sure. I'm not going to spend time on it until 2.6.16 is released. > > > > Should I start creating test packages out of 0.6 for the FC5 testers? > > Are there early FC5 users out there willing to do some testing? > > You can try. If nothing else it'd be interesting to see if it works. I > haven't tested it for a long time. OK, I'll give it a try and report back. > Note that I'm really postponing the final checks until the kernel is > out for the simple reason that I'm working on a few other ivtv > things: I've added support for the Yuan MPC622 miniPCI board (thanks > to Justin Nevill for donating this card) and the Gotview PCI DVD2 > (thanks to the help of Emil Biserov). Fixed a few bugs, and I want > to add support for AVC (automatic volume control). And since I'll > be working on the audio I'll also take another look at the reported > tinny audio problems. > > So I'm busy this week. > > Most of this new stuff is for the trunk and will end up in ivtv-0.7. But > when ivtv-0.6 is prepared I'll take a look if some of the new stuff can > be easily backported to that version. Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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