Hi Bernhard,
On 06/12/2014 07:28 PM, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
> Hallo
>
> More than 15 years have passed since the first working module for a
> zoran chipset based PCI card existed. Well not included into the
> Linux kernel at that time. According to my experience, the driver
> started to make problems when 64 Bit and more than 2GB Ram became
> popular. In May 2011 there was a patch available that made the cards
> working in machines with more than 2GB Ram, and AMD&Intel x64
> architectures. According to my information that patch did not make it
> into the linux kernel (the Patch was for the Linux 2.6.38 Kernel)
As far as I know it works fine on machines with a lot of memory, at
least the last time I tested it it was OK (with a 3.<something> kernel).
> So people spend time looking at code that does not work (well it
> compiles and does not cause troubles), and send patches the world
> will never honor.
I'll honor them. I still have zoran hardware and it is on my todo list
of drivers to update to the latest frameworks.
> I haven't had a question related to a zoran based card's in years. So
> I'm quite sure there are not much users out there that use a zoran
> based video cards in a up to date environment.
>
> Because of that I would really suggest that somebody removes the whole zoran
> driver from the linux kernel.
It's not blocking new development, so there is no need to remove it.
Besides, I have zoran hardware, so even if it is blocking new developments
I should be able to fix it.
Regards,
Hans
>
> Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> The ZR050_MO_COMP define is cut and pasted twice so we can delete the
>> second instance.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/zoran/zr36050.h
>> b/drivers/media/pci/zoran/zr36050.h
>> index 9f52f0c..ea083ad 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/pci/zoran/zr36050.h
>> +++ b/drivers/media/pci/zoran/zr36050.h
>> @@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ struct zr36050 {
>> /* zr36050 mode register bits */
>>
>> #define ZR050_MO_COMP 0x80
>> -#define ZR050_MO_COMP 0x80
>> #define ZR050_MO_ATP 0x40
>> #define ZR050_MO_PASS2 0x20
>> #define ZR050_MO_TLM 0x10
>>
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> Kind Regards
> Bernhard Praschinger
> Docwriter, probably the last mjpegtools maintainer
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