[mythtv-users] Myth, the HD-PVR, and the new beta firmware

[Harley Peters]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:31:05 -0600
"John P Poet" <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Harley Peters
> <harley at thepetersclan.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:06:28 -0600
> > "John P Poet" <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do you need the saa5249 driver?  If not, I believe you can do a
> >> "make menuconfig" (or something like that), and just configure the
> >> v4l drivers you do need (like the hdpvr).
> >>
> >> John
> >
> > No I don't but not sure how you would build just the necessary hdpvr
> > stuff. As it is not in the kernel but is an external kernel module
> > that's been merged in with the latest dvb drivers.
> >
> > Right now I am just enabling smp but it uses a little more cpu this
> > way.
> 
> You are grabbing the driver from Janne's HG repo, right?
> 
> *IN* the directory you grabbed from him, you can do something like
> "make menuconfig" to tell it to only build certain v4l elements,
> before doing the make && make install.
> 
> 
> John

Yea I just found this out. Never new you could do that before.
Thanks for the help

Harley