2009/11/26 Matthias Wächter <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I am now playing around with the available code for quite some time now > with mixed success, but no solution comes near the term “stable”. > > • kernel: nothing in there. Well, reasonable. > • v4l-dvb: nothing in there. > • s2-liplianin: mantis available, but obviously not under > development/bugfixing. IR seems to work, CI handling looks quite broken, > hangups/lockups are the rule, additional problems with more than one of > these cards in the system. > • mantis-v4l: does not compile out of the box for recent kernels. When > hand-knitting the files into a kernel source directory (2.6.31), works > quite unstable, module reloading frequently segfaults. IR does not work > (at least for VDR), CI handling looks better than s2-liplianin. > > Conclusion: Stability is way below a level for reasonable usage while > bug fixing. > > [1] gives an overview of the current state of (non-)development. Does > this still apply? > > My questions are: > > • Is there someone feeling responsible for that baby? > • What is the main part of the mantis stuff not working – mantis itself, > the frontend, or adaptions from multiproto to s2api? > • What can someone owning some of these cards (one Terratec, two > Technisat) do to help the (former) authors to continue their work? > • Is there some documentation available which would enable ‘the > community’ to work on that further? Please try http://jusst.de/hg/v4l-dvb and report the issues Regards, Manu -- 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
