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Popular third party drivers

Posted Apr 8, 2008 15:41 UTC (Tue) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)
In reply to: Popular third party drivers by jengelh
Parent article: A Linux Driver Project status report

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)?

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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.