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From: Mike Isely on 1 Dec 2009 21:30 On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Mike Isely wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > >> Em Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:33:30 -0600 (CST) > >> Mike Isely <isely(a)isely.net> escreveu: > >> > >>> Mauro: > >>> > >>> I had also posted up two high priority pvrusb2 patches that should > >>> really be cherry-picked for 2.6.32. You've already pulled them into > >>> v4l/dvb and I did mark them as high priority at the time. > >>> > >>> These patches enable use of FX2 microcontroller firmware that is 16KB in > >>> size. Hauppauge is no longer shipping 8KB firmware for HVR-1950 and > >>> HVR-1900 and without these changes then those devices won't work AT ALL > >>> in kernel 2.6.32. > >>> > >>> You can find these within the v4l-dvb Mercurial repository here: > >>> > >>> Changeset 13495:87c3853fe2b3 > >>> Subject: pvrusb2: Support 16KB FX2 firmware > >>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/87c3853fe2b3 > >>> > >>> Changeset 13500:d4c418d4b25c > >>> Subject: pvrusb2: Fix lingering 16KB FX2 Firmware issues > >>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/d4c418d4b25c > >>> > >>> I do not believe these patches have any ordering dependencies with other > >>> patches, though between the two the second one technically should come > >>> after the first. > > > > > > > >> There are. Picking just those patches broke compilation. > > > > Mauro: > > > > Please forward to me the compilation errors. Right now I am just not > > seeing how a patch this trivial could have any compilation dependencies. > > And unfortunately I will not be able to reproduce your build setup until > > at least Tuesday night. I must be blind. > > > > > >> Also, it seemed too late for adding support for newer boards/firmware when Linus > >> is about to release a kernel. > > > > This is not a new feature. It's a bug fix due to something that > > Hauppauge recently did. Hauppauge is NO LONGER officially distributing > > FX2 firmware with their hardware which the driver can use. This simply > > prevents any new HVR-1950 / HVR-1900 users from working under Linux. > > This fixes breakage for previously working hardware. The root cause is > > simple - the firmware blob is just larger now - and the fix is trivial. > > It absolutely needs to go in. In fact, this should go back to a > > 2.6.31.x and a 2.6.27.x release as well, though in those cases I have to > > figure out if driver source code is still close enough for the same > > patches to still work. > > > > I am sorry this is showing up late for you. There are multiple reasons > > for this. However I did mark these patches as "high priority", > > following your v4l-dvb changeset process. I did comment on the pull > > request that these were important but I guess I needed to also > > specifically call these out in the pull request text as well. > > > > If these don't get in now as part of the official 2.6.32 release, these > > absolutely need to be queued for 2.6.32.1. > > We are very late for 2.6.32. I'm not sure if are there still time for it. > > I'll seek for some time during this week to add those patches at the upstream > tree and removing them from the development tree and see what compilation > issues arise. Mauro: Thanks. Guess I also really need to get up to speed on git, finally... -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Ingo Molnar on 10 Dec 2009 01:30 Hi, FYI, there's a new build failure on 32-bit x86 caused by the new max2165 tuner driver: drivers/built-in.o: In function `max2165_set_params': max2165.c:(.text+0x486293): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' max2165.c:(.text+0x4862bc): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' max2165.c:(.text+0x4862c5): undefined reference to `__adddf3' max2165.c:(.text+0x4862cf): undefined reference to `__fixunsdfsi' Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: David T. L. Wong on 10 Dec 2009 02:10 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Hi, > > FYI, there's a new build failure on 32-bit x86 caused by the new max2165 > tuner driver: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `max2165_set_params': > max2165.c:(.text+0x486293): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' > max2165.c:(.text+0x4862bc): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' > max2165.c:(.text+0x4862c5): undefined reference to `__adddf3' > max2165.c:(.text+0x4862cf): undefined reference to `__fixunsdfsi' > > Ingo A patch is already submitted to v4l mailing list: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/64538/ David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Ingo Molnar on 10 Dec 2009 02:20 * David T. L. Wong <davidtlwong(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >Hi, > > > >FYI, there's a new build failure on 32-bit x86 caused by the new > >max2165 tuner driver: > > > >drivers/built-in.o: In function `max2165_set_params': > >max2165.c:(.text+0x486293): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' > >max2165.c:(.text+0x4862bc): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' > >max2165.c:(.text+0x4862c5): undefined reference to `__adddf3' > >max2165.c:(.text+0x4862cf): undefined reference to `__fixunsdfsi' > > > > Ingo > > > A patch is already submitted to v4l mailing list: > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/64538/ That patch you posted a week ago solves the build problem, thanks. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab on 10 Dec 2009 09:20
David T. L. Wong wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> FYI, there's a new build failure on 32-bit x86 caused by the new >> max2165 tuner driver: >> >> drivers/built-in.o: In function `max2165_set_params': >> max2165.c:(.text+0x486293): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' >> max2165.c:(.text+0x4862bc): undefined reference to `__floatunsidf' >> max2165.c:(.text+0x4862c5): undefined reference to `__adddf3' >> max2165.c:(.text+0x4862cf): undefined reference to `__fixunsdfsi' >> >> Ingo > > > A patch is already submitted to v4l mailing list: > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/64538/ Hmm... Douglas put this patch on his tree, but didn't submit me a pull request yet. I'll merge it right now and make it available for -git push soon. Mauro. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |