On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 17:24 +1000, Ross wrote: > On 6/6/06, Mark Paulus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > David Pettit wrote: > > > I have tried compiling the module manually and also using the > > instructions > > > from the Wiki. Neither works for me right now, although that does bring > > > up > > > a good point. The Wiki shows in one place building firmware files from an > > > .exe using a utility and in another downloading a package of firmware > > > files. > > > Which is the preferred method? > > > > The package of firmware files is a recent addition I believe, to help > > alleviate the confusion of fast moving firmware files from Hauppauge. > > Which ever method works should be fine. Or, you can move the files > > there manually. They just won't be under package control > > (dpkg/apt/aptitude/apt-show-versions). > > I'm going to create a .deb package with all the required firmware > files
There is already a tool which does this in the Debian package (ivtv-make-fwpkg) which will extract a .zip or .inf file and create a .deb package with them in the right place. That tool could usefully be taught about firmware.tar.gz as well. Now that there is a single known good location for getting firmware I've been thinking about doing wget+ivtv-make-fwpkg in the ivtv-utils postinst or something similar. I don't think the firmware binary blobs themselves would be accepted into contrib which is why I'd do it as a download at install time. Patches are welcome ;-) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Does not include installation.
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