Andy Walls wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:56 -0400, Dale Pontius wrote: >> I've been running the cx18 drivers out of mercurial since getting my >> HVR-1600 running, almost a year ago. As I see things, the driver is >> pretty mature now, and in fact I see commits for cx18 in 2.6.31 that are >> some of the last I saw going into the "regular" driver in mercurial. >> (I'm not counting the diagnostic work that has been going on in the last >> month or two, for one particular user.) >> >> Is it reasonable to go with the in-kernel cx18 driver when 2.6.31 goes >> stable, or is there still significant value with sticking with mercurial? > > As long as 2.6.31. has the following changes, then go with 2.6.31: > > 1. per stream queue mutex locks changed to per quueue spinlocks, and an > outgoing message work handling thread was added > > 2. front end SIF audio AGC actually uses the SIF signal for setting the > SIF audio AGC > > 3. Sliced VBI works and can be enabled for insertion into all MPEG II PS > type streams > > These were that last major fixes I can think of that made a difference > for anyone. I'd imagine they are all in 2.6.31 by now, but I haven't > checked. > > I don't know of any existing major problems with the cx18 driver itself. > The bad problems that seems to crop up now are usuaully system level > issues: a vmalloc pool that is too small, sharing an interrupt line with > another linux driver that has an interrupt handler with a poor response > time, etc. > > Future changes to the cx18 driver might include: > > 1. MPEG Index support > 2. Dual-watch audio support > 3. Additional cards type or fixing up exsting broken entries > 4. Sliced VBI in an MPEG TS stream (maybe) > > Regards, > Andy > > >> Dale Pontius > > The changes I see listed for 2.6.31 are: 11864 Complete support for Sliced and Raw VBI for 625 line systems 11950 Split LeadTek PVR2100 and DVR3100H into 2 separate card entries 11951 Add DVB-T support for the Leadtek WinFast DVR3100H 12182 Add DVB-T support for Yuan MPC-718 cards with an MT352 or... This changelog appears to start with your #4, so I'm guessing that the older stuff is already committed. Thanks, Dale -- 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
