[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Bug#437298: Bug#437298: Bug#437298: ivtv: FTBFS on i386 with 2.6.22-1

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 08:47 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> severity 437298 normal
> thanks
> 
> 
> Mark Purcell wrote:
> > ivtv 0.10.x is only for kernels >= 2.6.18 and <= 2.6.21.x
> 
> didn't know that, sorry.
> 
> > the ivtv modules have been incorporated into the kernel from 2.6.22 onwards
> > and the ivtv package 1.0.x is for kernels >= 2.6.22. This release does NOT 
> > contain the ivtv driver proper, as that is now part of kernel 2.6.22. 
> > It does contain test tools, utilities and the ivtv-fb and saa717x drivers
> > 
> > We need to think about how to incorporate in Debian.
> 
> well, then let's just drop the ivtv-source package and be done with it,
> from the kernel point of view, right?

The 2.6.22 kernel contains the ivtv driver itself but not the ivtv-fb
driver, I suspect that will be in 2.6.24 (I think it missed 23) so the
-source package is still somewhat useful.

I tried backporting the 1.0.0 ivtv-fb bits + 2.6.22 ivtv bits to older
kernel so we could continue to support all 2.6.18+ kernels but
unfortunately extensive changes would be required to the v4l layer in
the kernel so it turned out to be impractical. The 1.0.0 release
utilities are also not compatible with the 0.10.x drivers so including
two sets of source in the package won't work either. I'm reluctant to
include two sets of utilities.

Now that 2.6.22 is in unstable I think the best course of action would
be to upload the 1.0.0 release. People with <2.6.21 kernels can still
use the 0.10.x packages which I'll continue to make available on my
website.

I've already prepared the changes for the 1.0.0 release (pretty trivial)
but not finalised them since I was trying this backport thing. I'll
hopefully commit it this week some time.

I also need to investigate the X driver and compatibility with the new
framebuffer interface but that's a separate issue.

Cheers,
Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
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