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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