On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:14 -0700, VDR User wrote: > Maybe the fix is obvious to you but it clearly isn't to a lot of other > people. OK then. For reference, for those of you who have slept through the last few years of Linux development... When the kernel complains that it cannot find a certain item of firmware that is required for a driver to work, you need to place that firmware into the /lib/firmware directory, so that it can be found on demand. A recent development is that we're starting to collect those firmware images into a central repository, so that you don't have to go hunting all over the place for them. That repository is at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git We've also started to fix up some of the older drivers which used to have firmware built directly into the kernel instead of using the request_firmware() API to fetch it only when it's needed. Firmware for _those_ drivers, which includes av7110, is actually included directly in the kernel source tree for now, but cleanly separated from the drivers. It can be included in the kernel if you build the driver in and set the CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option, or otherwise it'll be automatically installed for you when you run 'make modules_install', if you build the driver as a module. The major distributions are now shipping 'kernel-firmware' packages which contain the firmware extracted from these older kernel drivers, and are in the process of switching to the linux-firmware.git tree instead, to include more firmware images. If you were using a normal kernel tree, this would all 'just work'. I believe the main problem, other than the fact that you don't _want_ to see the obvious answer, is that you're using a tree which has a lot of the normal kernel bits stripped out, so the automatic installation of the firmware doesn't work? I _would_ look at fixing that, but life's too short to learn to use everyone's weird version control system du jour; if it isn't in git, I have better things to do. When I encounter a project which doesn't use git, I usually figure they just don't _want_ me to contribute, and find something more productive to do. As it is, you just need to copy one file. It's _really_ simple. Which is why I assumed (and still assume) that you're just trolling. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
