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even corrected a typo in the README.

- Make build-2.6 compile in support for the AV7110 OSD by default
  and add a note about this in README.

- Make bttv modules not compile by default and add note to README.
- Fix make with -jx, where x > 1
- Force firmware to be compiled into kernel if AV7110 is compiled in.
- Modprobe firmware_class in insmod.sh, just in case.

Updated docs for new firmware download script

new firmware download location

- more details

- remove some 2.4 stuff from the docs

change version number to 1.1.1

Updated documentation to reflect proper name of tda1004x firmware

fix typo

add a note about insmod.sh errors for non-existant hardware,
and add some comments to insmod.sh

correction regarding 2.4.24 firmware load not being supported yet

added some NEWS (not much) and something to read

- strip README-2.6 to the bare minimum. Move interesing stuff to faq.txt
- add alps_bsrv2 => ves1x93 transition to main README
- minor cleanup in README

- add more specific informations about the firmware download (especially
for dvb-ttpci/av7110 users) into the toplevel README. IMHO this is the
only file the users are going to read... 8-/
- move firmware informatins from specific alps_tdlb7 file to main README
- clean up TODO list

MAKEDEV-DVB.sh is called by 'make install', no need to execute it manually

MAKEDEV-DVB.sh is now called by 'make install', no need to execute it manually

update sentence regarding dec insmodding

update sentences regarding the dec insmod

typo

typo

typo

typo

update

explain how to edit /etc/modules.conf

not the TROUBLESHOOTING file

update

update

build info and MAKEDEV script for first-time users. FAQ taken from DVB/.

- revamp readme to reflect latest changes

- update README to recent developments

Fixes for 2.5.55 all over the place:

- removed the patches, they are not needed any more. you can now
  use a vanilla 2.5.55 kernel
- created a new backport for video-buf and videodev from the 2.5.55
  sources
- necessary fixes to the saa7146 driver due to changes in 2.5.55
- the core budget functions are now provided by a module called
  "budget-core.o". (otherwise static compilation is not possible...)
- removed #ifdef MODULE crap from all files

Misc.
- "xawtv" (using xv extension) resulted in wrong colors. the problem
  is within "xawtv". Gerd Knorr told me, that it'll be fixed in the
  next release.

I tested this version with 2.4.20, 2.5.55 (modules) and 2.5.55
(static).

Added some notes about the ".config" problems reported
by Gregoire Favre <greg@ulima.unil.ch>.

This might happen to others, too, but now we can say
RTFM... ;-)

Cleaned up the TODO list.

Major cleanup: the goal is to get rid of the budget card <=> saa7146.o <=> videodev.o dependency,
so we can later split up the av7110 driver into a av7110 and budget card driver.

I tested this on 2.4.18-3 (original RedHat 7.3 kernel) and 2.5.53.

Changes in detail:

saa7146:
- fixed the unitialised timer warnings
- split saa7146.o into saa7146.o and saa7146_vv.o:
  all videodev (ie. v4l) related stuff is now encapsulated in saa7146_vv.o.
  the extension (ie. mxb or dvb-ttpci) now has to make sure to register the v4l
  devices via helper functions provided by saa7146_vv

mxb:
- changes to make the driver compile with the new saa7146 and saa7146_vv parts
- fix the vbi bypass issue for MXBs with saa7146, rev. 1 card

av7110:
- changes to make the driver compile with the new saa7146 and saa7146_vv parts
- some changes related to the upcoming av7110 <=> budget splitup, but they are
  commented out
- changed the saa7146 PAL values to experimental values that look good to me, but
  kept the old values as a comment. where are the original values from? there is
  a big black border on most channels on the left side which annoyed me...
- changed from video/generic_usercopy() to dvb_usercopy() and put this into the
  source code, not into compat.c
- moved the crc_32* stuff from compat.c to the source file where it is used
- now compat.[ch] was removed completely, all references were deleted from
  all other files.

other:
- updated the README and TODO files
- changed "makelinks" to remove alps_bsru6 stuff from kernel when making the symlinks
- fixed the build files in "build-2.4"
- fixed all other files needed for 2.5.x kernel build

More compile fixes to allow a flawless static build, changed the
READMEs accordingly, compile fixes for the mxb driver.

Add TODO (for the whole package) and README
(explains how to get this stuff running)
plus the "driver.av7110" script for convenience.