On Wednesday 18 March 2015 13:56:07 Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Simon Farnsworth simon@farnz.org.uk wrote:
Hello all,
I've got the misfortune of maintaining a small number of systems that use the cx18 driver for their HVR-1600 cards; I'm just in the process of bringing these systems up to Fedora 21, and have discovered that cx18-firmware was retired.
As I'm going to have to maintain the package for work purposes, I'm volunteering to maintain it in Fedora for F21 and later. If anyone's interested in having it available in Fedora, the review request is at:
These files are included in the upstream linux-firmware git repo.
[jwboyer@lando linux-firmware]$ git log v4l-cx23418-* commit a699eb6997f21d4fc88526754824e90417749db6 Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@redhat.com Date: Fri Apr 3 07:33:20 2009 -0300
Add firmwares for three Conexant chipsets for cx18, cx23885 and cx23840 Add firmwares for those V4L/DVB devices: CX23418 PCI Broadcast A/V with MPEG encoder CX25843 sideport Broadcast A/V decoder CX23885 PCI Express Broadcast A/V decoder Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
It would probably make a lot more sense just to get them included in the Fedora linux-firmware package.
That sounds like a very good idea to me. I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203385 for the attention of the linux-firmware maintainers.
-- Simon Farnsworth