Re: Patch for Linux on 64 Bit system.

Hi Bernhard,

Mauro is maintaining the kernel driver as part of the video4linux
project nowadays, so he can probably take care of that. Is that OK,
Mauro?

Thanks,
Ronald

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Bernhard Praschinger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallo
>
> there was some talk about the Zoran driver on 64 Bit systems with more than
> 2GB of Ram last week.
>
> Klaus Stengel has posted a patch for 2.6.24 on the developer mailinglist. On
> the 19.Mai.2008 You find the patch here:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1211153754.25181.32.camel%40aquila.nathanet.lan
>
> I have applied the patch to a 2.6.27 Kernel I had on my system. I did need
> to change the patch a little so I could apply it.
> I can confirm that Klaus patch also works with the DC30 and Buz.
>
> The reason why I didn't test the patch when it was released is that I didn't
> have a 64Bit machine with more than 2GB of Ram.
>
> I really think that this patch should make it into the kernel.
> I have checked the kernel logs, but I didn't find any hit that this patch
> did make it ever into the kernel. Could there someone check if that is
> really true.
>
> So how is the best way that this patch will be included into the Linux
> kernel ?
>
> I can try to apply the patch to a current kernel it we need to test it with
> a new kernel or a specific one.
>
> auf hoffentlich bald,
>
> Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter
>
> Email: [email protected]
> www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard
>

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