Hi all, It took a long time (over 5 months) but here is the first release candidate for the redesigned and cleaned up ivtv-0.10.0 driver.
This driver will work with kernels 2.6.18 and 2.6.19. It can be downloaded here: http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/unstable/ivtv-0.10.0rc1.tar.gz Note: while it has been tested pretty well it remains a release candidate, so if you have a really stable production system you might not want to use this driver when making important recordings. My request is if you can all start testing this release candidate. I am very happy with it as it is much easier to extend and improve than the older versions. It should also be a lot more stable. It is interesting to compare the 0.9.2 release with this 0.10.0rc1 release with regard to code size: 0.9.1: 19305 lines, 586420 bytes 0.10.0rc1: 14073 lines, 447377 bytes That's a reduction of about 25%! Before you start testing you should first read the notes at the beginning of the included README file. The most important one is that you need to use the included cx2341x encoder firmware. And if you use ivtvfb then you will need to add extra kernel modules and most likely you will also need to add the ivtv-fb module option osd_compat=1. I'd appreciate it if any posts regarding this release candidate are prefixed with [RC1] (as I did for this post). If all goes well, then I hope to make a final release in 1-2 weeks. My intention is to release a ivtv-0.18.0 for kernel 2.6.18, 0.19.0 for kernel 2.6.19 and a 0.20.0 for kernel 2.6.20. This keeps the numbering nicely regular. There will probably also be a 0.21.0 for kernel 2.6.21, but in all likelyhood ivtv will be merged into kernel 2.6.22. Enjoy! Hans _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
