On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:10 -0400, Dale Pontius wrote: > Andy Walls wrote: > > <deletia> > > > > The unfortunate problem is that the latest v4l-dvb branch is broken for > > LIRC. I2C subsystem changes in the latest kernels broke the interface > > LIRC used to hook up to I2C connected IR chips within V4L. I updated > > the cx18 driver to at least work with ir-kbd-i2c. LIRC is undergoing > > updates by Jarred Wilson, so that one day lirc_i2c and lirc_zilog (aka > > lirc_pvr150) will work again. See discussions within the past year on > > the linux-media and linux-kernel mailing lists. > > > > I need to do an analogous change for ivtv, but haven't gotten to it yet. > > > > Regards, > > Andy > > Can you help me understand why lirc_pvr150/lirc_zilog is not in the > mainline lirc?
Nope. :) I suspect it has something to do with the "firmware" image that is extracted from the Windows driver. > I've gotten information on these from you before, and > I've downloaded them and fooled around a little, but really digging in > is still down a ways on my things-to-do list. Gentoo has has lirc at > 0.8.4 for a long time, and recently moved to 0.8.5. The lirc_pvr150 > patch I saw was against some 0.8.5 version, and I've never actually seen > lirc_zilog, only heard about it. lirc_zilog is the new name for lirc_pvr150 that Janne and Jarod gave it when trying to get lirc into the kernel the first time. The Hauppague HD-PVR, for which Janne maintains the hdpvr driver, also has a Zilog Z8 microcontroller for IR. > At least one reference was on lkml, so > it sounds as if there has been at least one attempt to get lirc into the > mainline kernel. Jarod's still working it. http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6-lirc.git/?a=shortlog It looks like he just merged the recent kernel changes into his working lirc repository, so you'll have to scan through the summary for lirc related stuff. (If you care...) Regards, Andy > Thanks, > Dale _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
