[mpeg2] Re: Porting kfir for kernel 2.6

[Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Anssi Hannula wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I didn't see my first mail come through, here again:
> >
> > I had some spare time, and made a patch which makes the kfir and saa7113
> > drivers compile and load under 2.6. This is against current CVS version.
> >
> > As I know almost nothing about writing kernel code, or how these drivers
> > work, It's most likely that these drivers won't work (yet).
> > But, I don't even have such card so I can't really test/debug this, or
> > test how the 2.4 works.
> >
> > I hope someone could test this, and see what happens (or even fix it)...
>
> Thanks a lot! This is what's keeping me from switching to kernel 2.6!
>
> I'll give it a try one of the next days.
Depending on how far you get with that patch, I'll probably send patches 
for making verbose 2.4 debug logs, so I can understand how some (most 
notably floating-point thingies) things should work. I believe I can get 
this driver working, but you kfir users have to test many patches yet to 
come.

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Anssi Hannula