[MythDora] MythDora Update Idea

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:33:22AM -0400, Chris wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think so, but I'll leave that question to someone more 
> knowledgeable for a definitive answer.  Another factor is that the 
> demise of pci slots and IDE, serial and parallel connectors on 
> motherboards is bringing forth a flood of new pci-e and usb2 devices. 
> Someone running MythTV on CentOS today could very well find no place to 
> plug their existing peripherals in a replacement motherboard and no 
> support for new ones under CentOS.

RHEL5 will have support for new hardware until Mar 31, 2010 when it
goes from full support to deployment support. By then RHEL6 will have
been out, so you always will have a RHEL/CentOS product that has new
hardware support by Red Hat.

This means that most certainly any (upcoming) bus architecture is or
will be supported, as well as any enterprise grade peripheral,
e.g. networking, graphics, display etc.

What will be less supported by Red Hat proper and thus CentOS is the
entertainment sector which for mythtv means capture cards. But the
v4l/dvb project compiles for several minor Linux releases back, so you
can usually save the day with a kmdl.

Note that the too fast update character of Fedora made ivtv inoperable
for a transition time, while RHEL/CentOS users didn't notice. So at
the end of the day you probably have better support in RHEL land than
in the fast paced Fedora land.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net