Aidan Any idea when the next 'batch' of em28xx cards will be added to v4l-dvb or would that question be better asked on the dev list? Thanks On 31/03/2008, Aidan Thornton <makosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
