Re: Support for IVC4300 (go7007 / saa7113)

["Ken Bender" <bender647@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > Where would I start if I wanted to try and make the go7007 driver
> > work for this card?
>
> Hard to tell without having suitable hardware. As ivtv maintainer (for
> the Conexant cx23415/6 MPEG encoder/decoder chips) I have a vested
> interest in getting MPEG boards to work. So I'm willing to help with
> advice and some coding to try to get this driver into the kernel.
> However, without actual hardware there isn't much I can do.
>
> The go7007 driver is a typical driver made by a company without much
> regard to future inclusion with the kernel: e.g. proprietry ioctls,
> hardcoded saa7113/5 support instead of relying on the corresponding
> kernel modules, etc. Not very nice.
>
> I just tried to compile the 0.9.8 driver and it looks like the
> snd-go7007.c source is the one that has the most problems. I'm no ALSA
> expert so I can't tell whether it is just a matter of some missing
> includes or whether it needs more work. Besides that the use of
> AUDC_SET_INPUT needs to be fixed and should be replaced with
> VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING (see the media/v4l2-common.h header from the
> kernel). This is just to get it to compile. To get it into the kernel
> would require a lot more changes.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Hans

I know this is an old thread, but I'd love it if the go7007 drivers didn't
break on every kernel sublevel patch.  If loaning out my Plextor TV-402U
would help, let me know.
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