[mythtv-users] HDPVR and firmware 1.7.1.30059?

[Andrew Stadt]

On 30/03/2012 10:44 AM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Andrew Stadt<acstadt at stadt.ca>  wrote:
>> To elaborate: Same colour/hue/brightness issues as 1.6.29207.
> Just to be clear - this was *never* considered a bug in the firmware.
> The change to the way the color controls worked was intentional and
> requires a driver update (both on Windows and Linux).  That said, you
> should not expect to see it magically revert back to the old behavior
> in subsequent upgrades such as this one.
>
> The change required to the driver was submitted to the linux-media
> group back in October (and was finally merged in February and is
> slated for inclusion in kernel 3.4).  Why did it take four months for
> the patch to get merged?  Is it really acceptable for a fix created in
> October to finally get into a kernel released six months later?  And
> then followed by eventually waiting for distros to go to the new
> kernel (all the while leaving users with that firmware are left with
> broken hardware)?  That's really a question that should be posed to
> LKML since it seems to be an area that could definitely use some
> improvement (the Linux development model does have ways in which it
> works really well - this happens to be one where it tends to suck).
>
> Devin
>
In retrospect I should have written that better: I wasn't implying that 
it was a bug, however, the 'fix' that worked with 1.6.x wasn't working 
with 1.7.1.30059 (at least with a Rev D unit, did work with a Rev E 
one). I haven't really had time to properly explore why at this time.

Andrew.