[mythtv-users] 2.6.20 broken for pvr150/500...

[Nick Morrott]

Forwarded from the ivtv lists - I saw this and thought it important
for any cutting edge users wanting to use the new 2.6.20 kernel and
ivtv 0.10.0.

Nick

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl>
Date: 05-Feb-2007 20:08
Subject: [ivtv-users] 2.6.20 broken for pvr150/500...
To: ivtv-devel at ivtvdriver.org, ivtv-users at ivtvdriver.org


Hi all,

When porting ivtv to 2.6.20 I discovered that I got errors when loading
the cx25840 module and that that module couldn't load the firmware
anymore.

I've just discovered that changes in 2.6.20 brought a cx25840 bug to the
surface (it was always there). I've made a patch and pending some
testing it should end up in 2.6.20.1 (it's a pretty serious bug after
all), but this means that cards with a cx2584x won't work with 2.6.20
unless you manually apply the attached patch.

If you have a saa7115-based card (pvr250/350), then it will work fine.

The ivtv trunk has been patched as well to support 2.6.20.

Next kernel cycle I really should do some tests before the kernel is
released :-(

Regards,

        Hans


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