PVR350, and /multimedia/pvr250

[Julian Elischer]

usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> Julian,
> 
> On 7/26/07, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>> usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
>> > Dicky,
>> >
>> > On 7/26/07, Arne Wörner <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> --- Dicky Illing <dicky_illing at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > I recently bought myself a Huappage PVR350, as I had been playing 
>> with
>> >> MythTV
>> >> > at work, and it was one of the ones that is supported (by 
>> report!) on
>> >> > FreeBSD, ,however when I try to compile the port, it fails here. Can
>> >> anyone
>> >> > point me in the right direction please!I definitely have the .sys
>> >> file in
>> >> >
>> >> Hmm...
>> >>
>> >> Have u patched the kernel already? make patch-iicbb or so?
>> >> Maybe that causes that warning?
>> >>
>> >> Did u try pvrxxx already?
>> >>
>> >> -Arne
>> >
>> > Arne is correct. these errors are due to an unpatched kernel-tree.
>> >
>> > i am not sure if the pvr250 patch will still apply cleanly ( which
>> > version of freebsd are you running? )
>> >
>> > if it doesn't compile/patch cleanly, please report back with the
>> > compiler errors.
>> >
>> > regards,
>> >
>> > usleepless
>>
>> Is there a patch I should try get into 7.0 before it gets out?

Can someone 
please send me a patch for 7.0.
I cannot commit to 6 without it going into 7 first.
(assuming I can get it through re@)


> 
> it would be awesome if the pvr250/pvrxxx ports would not depend on
> kernel-patching anymore. it is the most common compile problem for
> these drivers. and people come on to the list asking the same old
> question over and over again.
> 
> the problem with the iicbb-patch of pvr250 is that about a year ago,
> only a part of iicbb was patched to what the iicbb-patch is about. so
> when patching these kernel-trees, this particular patch is reversed
> and the kernel does not compile anymore.

7 definitly seems to be at least partly patched already..
(or something)

Who did that?  is there more work needed or is int not needed in 7?


> 
> i have attached a patch that should work for Dicky's problems. i hope
> it applies cleanly to the 7-branch as well ( i don't know ).
> 
> @Dicky:
> fetch a fresh kernel-tree, and then:
> 
> #cd /usr/ports/multimedia
> #rm -rf pvrxxx
> #fetch http://usleepless.110mb.com/pvrxxx_port.tgz
> #tar xzf pvrxxx_port
> #cd pvrxxx
> #make patch-iicbb
> #make
> etc....
> 
> and recompile and reinstall your kernel.
> 
> this port should patch your kernel with the aforementioned patch (with
> any reverses). it doesn't need any firmware files in distfiles since
> it loads the firmware from ivtvdriver.org. i should update the
> pvrxxx-port with this version, i know.
> 
> Julian, if you need any help with the attached patch, or it doesn't
> apply, plz contact me. thanks!
> 
> regards,
> 
> usleep
> 
> 
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