Re: Patch for Linux on 64 Bit system.

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Wed, 26 May 2010 15:24:02 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mjpeg.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 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?

Sure.

Bernhard,

Please submit the modified patch to [email protected].

> 
> 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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Cheers,
Mauro

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