On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Another Sillyname <anothersname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a machine that has an internal card that's a Lifeview DVB and > works fine using the v4l-dvb mercurial sources. > > I want to add a Pinnacle USB Hybrid stick (em28xx) that does not work > using the v4l-dvb sources but does work using the v4l-dvb-kernel > version. > > 1. Will the number of em28xx cards supported by v4l-dvb be increased > shortly? (My card id was 94 IIRC ). If it's supported by v4l-dvb-kernel, it's entirely possible, yes. > 2. Can I mix and match from the sources...i.e. can I graft the em28xx > stuff from v4l-dvb-kernel into the v4l-dvb source and compile > successfully or has the underlying code changed at a more strategic > level? Not trivially, since v4l-dvb-kernel contains changes to the core code that the em28xx driver relies on and that are incompatible with changes in the main v4l-dvb repository since. You can try http://www.makomk.com/hg/v4l-dvb-makomk - it's the em28xx and xc3028 drivers grafted onto a version of v4l-dvb that's about 5 months old at this point - though it's really not a great starting point for porting them onto newer versions, since you'd want to drop the xc3028 driver in favour of the newer one > 3. Why did the sources branch? Was there a good technical reason for this? Supporting the xc3028 silicon tuner needed some changes to support hybrid analog/digital tuners better. Unfortunately, Markus couldn't come to an agreement with the rest of the developers on how to do it. (I think the main concern were that the changes he were proposing were rather more invasive than they needed to be and risked breaking existing drivers). In the end, someone else coded the equivalent functionality in a more backwards-compatible way and merged it in stages. (It's actually relatively easy to port code from Markus' hybrid tuner framework to the v4l-dvb one, though he will never admit so.) > 4. If I can't use the v4l-dvb sources to get my em28xx working what's > the chances of getting the v4l-dvb-kernel stuff working for the > lifeview flydvb card? Not good. Its support for other hardware is, if anything, going to be slowly getting worse over time as other drivers have to be modified or disabled to make it compile on newer kernels. > Thanks in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
