[MythDora] MythDora Update Idea

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 07:01:29PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> > b) rebasing mythdora to RHEL5/6 (actually then CentOS5/6), which have
> >    far less updates to worry about (and the updates are much more safe
> >    to apply)

> b) Is a wonderful solution, or would be if those old kernels were smart 
> enough to load the correct drivers and firmware in the correct order for 
> my tuners and capture cards.  The Fedora kernels do that for me.  I 
> might be able to splice a Fedora kernel into CentOS5/6 but if I did 
> that, how much of that legendary stability would be lost in the process?
> And how many custom RPMs would I need to glue the old and new together?

Can't this all be fixed with the v4l kmdl or failing that a centosplus
kernel? Quite a few people already use mythtv on various hardware with
RHEL5/CentOS5.
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