--- dvb-kernel/README	2004/05/03 14:27:45	1.23
+++ dvb-kernel/README	2004/05/03 14:37:11	1.24
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 linuxtv-dvb
 ===========
 
-Digital Video Broadcast drivers for Linux 2.6.x.
+Digital Video Broadcast drivers for Linux 2.6.x *only*.
 
 Note: Unlike in previous releases, the test/utility programs have
 been unbundled and are released seperately as linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0.
@@ -10,6 +10,34 @@ The DVB drivers are already included in
 don't need this package. What you will need, hwoever, is firmware.
 see below.
 
+"What happened to the 2.4 tree?" 
+--------------------------------
+
+See http://linuxtv.org/news/js/branch24.xml
+
+Maintaining the DVB driver for both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 in the same CVS
+tree became too problematic. E.g. it is not possible to create DVB
+driver patches for the mainline kernel directly from CVS without doing
+a lot of work by hand. We also need to do some structural changes which
+are not easy to do when we always have to keep 2.4 backwards
+compatibility.
+
+Consequently, we've created a "linux_2_4" branch in dvb-kernel CVS for
+the driver version for Linux 2.4.
+
+Main development in CVS HEAD will be for Linux 2.6 only, and all 2.4
+compatibility stuff has been removed from HEAD.
+
+It largely depends on public interest and your help (hint, hint) for
+improvements from HEAD to be backported to 2.4. If you want to checkout
+the 2.4 drivers use the following command:
+
+cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -P -rlinux_2_4
+dvb-kernel
+
+You can also select the linux_2_4 branch when viewing files in the CVS
+web interface http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/ .
+
 Quick start:
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