Broadcom CrystalHD in-between support

[Nicolas Chauvet]

Hi,

The current broadcom crystalhd support in the staging area kernel is in-between.

I mean that a lot of work is missing from what is available in the Jarod's tree:
git.linuxtv.org/jarod/crystalhd.git
Notably the support for the last chipset BCM70015 is missing, which is
confusing because the crystalhd module is present.

What is missing for this work to get merged in linux staging area ?
At least that would help not to split the content of the two repositories.

On a side note, I have such hardware. So I've successfully validated
usability of the code. (with two trivial patches found over the web).

Thx for the advices.

Nicolas (kwizart)

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:31:44PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  The current broadcom crystalhd support in the staging area kernel is in-between.
>  
>  I mean that a lot of work is missing from what is available in the Jarod's tree:
>  git.linuxtv.org/jarod/crystalhd.git
>  Notably the support for the last chipset BCM70015 is missing, which is
>  confusing because the crystalhd module is present.
>  
>  What is missing for this work to get merged in linux staging area ?
>  At least that would help not to split the content of the two repositories. 
I don't think anyone other than Jarod knows the answer to that.  Let's
CC him.

josh

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:31:44PM +0200, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > The current broadcom crystalhd support in the staging area kernel is in-between.
>  > 
>  > I mean that a lot of work is missing from what is available in the Jarod's
> tree:
>  > git.linuxtv.org/jarod/crystalhd.git
>  > Notably the support for the last chipset BCM70015 is missing, which is
>  > confusing because the crystalhd module is present.
>  > 
>  > What is missing for this work to get merged in linux staging area ?
>  > At least that would help not to split the content of the two repositories.
>  
>  I don't think anyone other than Jarod knows the answer to that.  Let's
>  CC him. 
I think it was initially requested upstream that we get the crystalhd
driver out of staging before including even more new hardware support. But
then Broadcom's support sort of faded and the hardware became mostly
obsolete due to everyone going the nvidia/vdpau route. I ran out of time
and energy to care much about the crystalhd driver, unfortunately. :\

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod(a)redhat.com