On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:36:33 +0100 wk <handygewinnspiel@xxxxxx> wrote: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:50:50 +0100 > > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've made a v4l-dvb tree containing the old DVB API sources as found here: > >> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/DVB/doc/dvbapi/. > >> > >> This tree is here: http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-api > >> > > > > It seems that we did suplicate work, except that, on your tree, you just > > dropped all CVS history. > > > > Anyway, the DVB API were just added to the repository with all the CVS history. > > > > > >> Run 'make spec' to build both the v4l2-spec and the dvb-spec, or > >> run 'make -C dvb-spec' to build only the latter. You'll need the transfig > >> package to get the dvb-spec to compile. > >> > > > > I didn't touch at the Makefiles. Feel free to submit this as a patch for the > > current tip. > > > > > >> My question is if this is indeed the most recent version that we have? There > >> is a dvb-api-v4 pdf document, but it is my understanding that v4 was > >> actually never implemented and never got beyond the proposal stage. Is that > >> correct? Or are there bits and pieces that were actually used? > >> > > > > > >> The original documentation for v4 is here: > >> http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dvb-kernel-v4/linux/Documentation/dvb/ > >> > > > > V4 is a proposal that were never finished. > > > > We're currently using V3 + S2API. This is named as V5. > > > > We need, of course, to update the docs to rename it to Version 5 and add S2API > > specs there. We should also review if the current DVB core and drivers match > > the V3. I suspect that maybe there are other changes that aren't applied yet at > > the docs. > > > > > > Thanks Mauro and Hans for your fast help, its a good starting point for > updates. > The compiling requirements are not complete, missing are > - TransFig/fig2dev from xfig homepage > - dvipdf (where to find that btw..?) Probably, the dependencies depend on your distro. With RHEL5.3, I had to install only xfig and tetex-latex. > The last one, dvipdf can be replaced by "dvipdfm", which is part of > teTex-3.0 which is anyway needed by only changing one line in Makefile: > > dvbapi.pdf: dvbapi.dvi > - dvipdf $< $@ > + dvipdfm -o $@ $< dvipdf were installed together with tetex, with RHEL. Maybe we may have a small script to check for those dependencies and adjust them accordingly. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
