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Popular third party drivers

Posted Apr 8, 2008 13:21 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: Popular third party drivers by jengelh
Parent article: A Linux Driver Project status report

Oh right, here's a good example  the ivtv package from SUSE. Has no .src.rpm, so I guess
there is even more surrounding legalese than with the NVIDIA license if there is not even a
.src.rpm. Now, how would you get ivtv into the single kernel package...

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Posted Apr 8, 2008 15:41 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217) [Link]

FYI, the ivtv kernel driver was merged in 2.6.22. Not sure what might be in the SUSE ivtv
package. Perhaps the firmware (would explain the lack of a .src.rpm)?

Popular third party drivers

Posted Apr 9, 2008 1:28 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Yes. I would think it was firmware.

I have one of those cards and they do require separate firmware, but the driver is now
in-kernel.