AverMedia 6 Eyes AVS6EYES driver

AverMedia 6 Eyes AVS6EYES driver

[Martin Samuelsson]

Hello again!

This time, I bring you a somewhat larger patch than the previous one. It adds support for the AverMedia AVS6EYES Zoran-based MJPEG card. And it's not base64 encoded. Sorry about that one.

It can be found at 

http://sam.kfib.org/sixeyes/linux-2.6.16-avs6eyes.diff

and weighs in at a respectable 46 kB.

I've tried to keep it as small as possible, but it does affect quite a number of things:

It adds a whole new driver, for the Conexant bt866 video encoder.
It imports an almost whole new driver, created within the Marvel project, for the Samsung ks0127 video decoder.
It modifies drivers/media/video/Kconfig,
            drivers/media/video/Makefile,
            drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c,
            drivers/media/video/zoran.h,
            Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
        and include/linux/i2c-id.h

The latter defines two experimental I2C_DRIVERIDs; not suited for real usage, but I'm not sure about how to obtain official ones.

I've stripped the ks0127 driver of all Marvel specific stuff, and reworked a few crucial functions to use stock kernel names for video modes and such things.

The diff is against the 2.6.16 tree, and considering its size and impact, it would probably be wise to let somebody with a little spare time take a look at it before inclusion.

I'd appreciate being kept in the recipient list in case of discussion.

Regards,
/Sam

Re: AverMedia 6 Eyes AVS6EYES driver

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi Andrew / all,

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 12:37 +0200, Martin Samuelsson wrote:
> This time, I bring you a somewhat larger patch than the previous one.
> It adds support for the AverMedia AVS6EYES Zoran-based MJPEG card. And
> it's not base64 encoded. Sorry about that one.
[..]
> http://sam.kfib.org/sixeyes/linux-2.6.16-avs6eyes.diff
[..]
> It modifies drivers/media/video/Kconfig,
>             drivers/media/video/Makefile,
>             drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c,
>             drivers/media/video/zoran.h,
>             Documentation/video4linux/Zoran

I've reviewed those modifications, along with the new i2c modules
(ks0127 and bt866), and they're all up-to-standard. I recommend that
those patches be applied to the kernel tree. With those patches, a new
type of card will be supported in the kernel driver.

>         and include/linux/i2c-id.h
> The latter defines two experimental I2C_DRIVERIDs; not suited for real
> usage, but I'm not sure about how to obtain official ones.

(I think people commonly just append their IDs to the list at the bottom
of i2c-id.h, incrementally; at least, that's what I did when I submitted
earlier patches.)

Cheers,
Ronald