[ATrpms-users] SAA7164 Linux Driver - CentOS5

[John Robinson]

On 17/05/2009 10:05, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Big Wave Dave wrote:
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is it going to be possible for the ATrpms chain to backport the
>>> driver/requirements to the CentOS 5?  Is this something that is just
>>> going to require a more "hacked" CentOS, running self-built kernels?
>>>
>> I should have included the link to Steven Toth's work:
>> http://www.kernellabs.com/blog/?page_id=17
> 
> Backporting a v4l driver to 2.6.18 isn't a trivial task. It would need
> someone in the v4l community, perhaps even Steven himself to do that.

And somebody with experience of EL5's 2.6.18. The task may be made 
slightly easier because RH have backported an enormous amount of more 
recent stuff to their 2.6.18 kernel. I don't remember exactly what now 
but I have in the past persuaded v4l stuff requiring more recent kernel 
versions to run on EL[45] release kernels because of this.

Cheers,

John.