On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Fredrik Lingvall <fredrik.lingvall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/16/11 19:35, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: > > Please excuse the dumbness of the question, but, could you direct me > to the repository having these patches applied? > > > No it's not a dumpness question - I have struggeled with this too. > > First I got confused which kernel source to use. There are two git repos > mentioned on the linuxtv.org site: > > 1) on http://linuxtv.org/repo/ > > ~ # git clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git v4l-dvb > > and 2) on http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git > > ~ # git clone git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git v4l-dvb > > > I'm also a bit confused on how to get the linux-media tree. My guess was to > do a > > # cd v4l-dvb > # git remote add linuxtv git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git > # git remote update > > > They also now and then create tar-files, and right know I'm testing the one > from 2011-12-13, That is, > > ~ # cd /usr/src > src # git clone git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git v4l-dvb > src # wget > http://linuxtv.org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-2011-12-13.tar.bz2 > src # cd v4l-dvb > v4l-dvb # tar xvjf ../linux-media-2011-12-13.tar.bz2 > > Then configure and build the kernel:make menuconfig (enable the drivers > etc), make -j2 && make modules_install & make install > and add the new kernel to lilo/grub etc and reboot. > > The media tree don't build cleanly on the stock Gentoo kernel (3.0.6) so > that's why I'm using Linux' dev kernel (which is the one recommended on > Linuxtv). However, not everything works with this kernel (I can't emerge > virtualbox for example). > > /Fredrik > Thank you. So, there would be no success on Sabayon 7 64 bit having kernel version 3.1? I would not rebuild all the kernel, just the media. Does this suffice? Mike -- 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
