Re: Linux Plumbers Conference 2009: V4L2 API discussions

2009-08-06 Thread Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Hans Verkuilhverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi all, During this years Plumbers Conference I will be organizing a session (or possibly more than one) on what sort of new V4L2 APIs are needed to support the new SoC devices. These new APIs should also solve the problem

Problem with OSPrey 240e

2009-08-06 Thread hongqian
Hello, all: I'm new to capture card. I have a osprey 240e card. But I don't know how to make it work. I read the cardlist.bttv, there is no 240e in it. I modprobe bttv, and it can't recognise the card. Anyone knows how to do with it? Thanks all. yours hongqian -- To unsubscribe from

How to efficiently handle DMA and cache on ARMv7 ? (was Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped out ?)

2009-08-06 Thread Laurent Pinchart
[Resent with an updated subject, this time CC'ing linux-arm-kernel] I've spent the last few days playing with get_user_pages() and mlock() and got some interesting results. It turned out that cache coherency comes into play at some point, making the overall problem more complex. Here's my

Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb

2009-08-06 Thread Hans Verkuil
Em Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:10:04 +0200 Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl escreveu: Hi Mauro, Please pull from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb for the following: - v4l: introduce string control support. Hans, This looks very weird: +/* The following two functions really belong

Re: How to efficiently handle DMA and cache on ARMv7 ? (was Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped out ?)

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Dooks
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:08:21PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: [Resent with an updated subject, this time CC'ing linux-arm-kernel] I've spent the last few days playing with get_user_pages() and mlock() and got some interesting results. It turned out that cache coherency comes into play

Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, in an earlier post I was responded to that my old WinTV USB 1 Tuner would never work under Linux due to bad and complicated coding which (since no one uses that tuner anymore) will never be looked at. So I am in need of a new tuner! This is a dilemma as I need analog TV since I will

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Krufky
Kaya, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: Hi, in an earlier post I was responded to that my old WinTV USB 1 Tuner would never work under Linux due to bad and complicated coding which (since no one uses that tuner anymore) will never be looked at. I don't

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Kaya Saman
Michael Krufky wrote: Kaya, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: I don't think that's true -- I didn't see your earlier post, but I can only assume that your WinTV USB 1 Tuner uses the NT003 / NT004 chipsets, supported by the usbvision driver -- did

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Krufky
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: Michael Krufky wrote: Kaya, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: I don't think that's true -- I didn't see your earlier post, but I can only assume that your WinTV USB 1 Tuner uses

Re: Issues with Empire Dual Pen: request for help and suggestions!!!

2009-08-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, xwang1...@email.it wrote: Hi, I want to inform you that thanks to Douglas Schilling Landgraf, the first point (automatic recognition of the device when plugged in) ha been resolved (using his development tree driver). I've tried to scan for digital channels

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Krufky
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: Michael Krufky wrote: HVR1400 is expresscard. HVR1900 is usb2.  HVR1950 is the NTSC/ATSC/QAM version of the HVR1900.  (HVR1900 is PAL/DVB-T, but can also do NTSC, and other analog standards) HVR1900 is the one I am

RE: Linux Plumbers Conference 2009: V4L2 API discussions

2009-08-06 Thread Aguirre Rodriguez, Sergio Alberto
-Original Message- From: linux-omap-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hiremath, Vaibhav Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:13 PM To: Hans Verkuil; linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: eduardo.valen...@nokia.com; davinci-linux-open-

Re: [PATCH,RFC] Drop non-unlocked ioctl support in v4l2-dev.c

2009-08-06 Thread Hans Verkuil
Hi Laurent, Hi everybody, this patch moves the BKL one level down by removing the non-unlocked ioctl in v4l2-dev.c and calling lock_kernel/unlock_kernel in the unlocked_ioctl handler if the driver only supports locked ioctl. Opinions/comments/applause/kicks ? I've been thinking about

Re: Issues with Empire Dual Pen: request for help and suggestions!!!

2009-08-06 Thread xwang1976
Ok, I've made the change and now the digital tv works perfectly. So now I should test the analog tv, but I fear to have another kernel panic. Is there something I can do before testing so that to be sure that at least all the file system are in a safety condition even if a kernel panic happens.

Re: Issues with Empire Dual Pen: request for help and suggestions!!!

2009-08-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:16 AM, xwang1...@email.it wrote: Ok, I've made the change and now the digital tv works perfectly. So now I should test the analog tv, but I fear to have another kernel panic. Is there something I can do before testing so that to be sure that at least all the file

Re: Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900HD support?

2009-08-06 Thread Kaya Saman
No, I recommended the HVR1900 because *IT* is fully supported, and is *not* getting replaced. HVR900 got replaced. HVR1900 is not as large as a set top box, but it is bigger than the usb sticks, and uses a power brick, for the mpeg encoder. It is on the Hauppauge web site, you probably just

Re: How to efficiently handle DMA and cache on ARMv7 ? (was Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped out ?)

2009-08-06 Thread David Xiao
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 06:06 -0700, Laurent Pinchart wrote: Hi Ben, On Thursday 06 August 2009 13:46:19 Ben Dooks wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:08:21PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: [snip] The second problem is to ensure cache coherency. As the userspace application will read

Syntek Driver ...

2009-08-06 Thread Clinton Lee Taylor
Greetings ... I was wondering if anybody has looked at the Syntek Driver stk11xx at http://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver/files/ ... This driver is meant to have updates for the EasyCap USB video capture device ... Would be great to have included in the main line Video4Linux and then up

Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb

2009-08-06 Thread Hans Verkuil
On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:10:38 Trent Piepho wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: Why do you need two routines that will always return zero? Why to create a code that will never be used? v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c is already complex enough without adding any bogus code.

Re: How to efficiently handle DMA and cache on ARMv7 ? (was Is get_user_pages() enough to prevent pages from being swapped out ?)

2009-08-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
David Xiao wrote: Another approach is working from a different direction: the kernel allocates the non-cached buffer and then mmap() into user space. I have done that in similar situation to try to achieve zero-copy. open(O_DIRECT) does DMA to arbitrary pages allocated by userspace, and

sn9c20x driver seems ok, but no video

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Hallinan
Hi folks, Trying to get a usb webcam based on SN9C20x driver working on Ubuntu. Loading the module, everything looks good (log output trimmed for easy reading): kernel: usb 7-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 kernel: usb 7-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb

2009-08-06 Thread Trent Piepho
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:10:38 Trent Piepho wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: Why do you need two routines that will always return zero? Why to create a code that will never be used? v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c is already

[patch 6/9] drivers/media/dvb: Use dst_type field instead of type_flags

2009-08-06 Thread akpm
From: Julia Lawall ju...@diku.dk It seems from other code that it is the dst_type field rather than the type_flags field that contains values of the form DST_TYPE_IS... The type_flags field contains values of the form DST_TYPE_HAS... The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:

[patch 7/9] stk-webcam: read buffer overflow

2009-08-06 Thread akpm
From: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com It tested the value of stk_sizes[i].m before checking whether i was in range. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin roel.kl...@gmail.com Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mche...@infradead.org Cc: Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl Cc: Trent Piepho xy...@speakeasy.org

[PATCH v0 0/5] V4L: vpif_capture driver for DM6467

2009-08-06 Thread m-karicheri2
From: Muralidharan Karicheri m-kariche...@ti.com This patch series add support for VPIF Capture Driver on DM6467. VPIF (Video Port Interface) has two channels for capture video or Raw image data. Currently only video capture is supported using TVP5147 on each of the channel. That means two

[PATCH v0 1/5] DaVinci - re-structuring code to support vpif capture driver

2009-08-06 Thread m-karicheri2
From: Muralidharan Karicheri m-kariche...@ti.com This patch makes the following changes:- 1) Modify vpif_subdev_info to add board_info, routing information and vpif interface configuration. Remove addr since it is part of board_info 2) Add code to

[PATCH v0 2/5] V4L : vpif updates for DM6467 vpif capture driver

2009-08-06 Thread m-karicheri2
From: Muralidharan Karicheri m-kariche...@ti.com Following changes done for vpif driver to support vpif capture:- 1) Current version of display driver defined vpif register space as part for vpif display platform driver resource This is not correct since vpif is

Re: PVR x50 corrupts ATSC 115 streams

2009-08-06 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:53:35AM -0600, David Engel wrote: I moved the disks and tuner cards (2 Kworld ATSC 115s, 1 Hauppauge PVR 250 and 1 Hauppauge PVR 350) to the new system (AMD X2 3600 CPU and Biostar TForce 550 motherboard). Things went fairly smoothly and I seemed to have full