[Pkg-mythtv-maintainers] Re: upstream bug fix for ivtv - options

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 05:03 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: 
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:05:46PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > But I also don't understand why these bugs should be considered "important"
> > > to be let into etch?  Graceful handling of tveeproms isn't all that
> > > important.  What's the importance of the busy waiting loop fix?
> 
> > The busy wait loop thing fixes a problem with excessive CPU load when
> > using a PVR-350 framebuffer output and mythtv. The upstream thread is
> > http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-devel/2006-December/003803.html but
> > in summary the load was 2-3x what it should be with one of these cards.
> > People who were suffering the problem report loads going from 50-60%
> > down to negligible amounts with the fix.
> 
> Oh, well, that could explain some symptoms that I've seen personally, so I
> guess I can be persuaded that this should be allowed into etch. ;)

;-)

> Ok, unblocked.

Thanks.

Ian.
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Ian Campbell

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