[mythtv-users] mythtv on 2.6.18 + ivtv not possible?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Sep 26 10:27:28 UTC 2006


On 09/26/06 06:12, Timo Boettcher wrote:

>  since there is ivtv-0.8.0 for 2.6.18, I tried to upgrade.
>  Today, I read on the ivtv-mailinglist that mythtv won't work
>  on 2.6.18 with ivtv.
>
>  Quoting http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149039#c5
>  I will happily bump ivtv to 0.8 and enjoy as all the MythTV
>  users yell and scream since MythTV has had an open bug about
>  V4L2 support for 3 months and they're shipping version doesn't
>  support it. What does this mean?
>  MythTV will not work with 2.6.18 and higher kernels.
>
>  Has anyone here tried that configuration and got results?
>

It's definitely not possible because the guys from Gentoo said it's not.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/214090#214090
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/226243#226243

MythTV 0.20 was tagged at 11132 (which, by my ruler comes after 10589).  
11274 was applied to 0.20-fixes.

Mike


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