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Subject: re : [pwc] vanilla kernel cleanning
From: matthieu castet <>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:14:00 +0100
Hi Luc,

> The kernel don't have support the decompressor. This is the
> current problem.
Yes but there are references to *RomTable, pwc_dec23_decompress or things like that.

> For compatibility with v4l1, a black border is present for
> size not supported by the hardware. Anything else
> is already remove since one year.
Thanks for the explanation.

> The lastest snapshot fixed all bugs known (and an important one).
Great :)


> If i sync the driver to the kernel. User will need to use my driver
> because no application have support the compressed format.
> But the decompression can be done or not done in the kernel.
> Because without the decompression you don't have any format useable.
But the current kernel doesn't support compressed format, isn't it ?
So the userspace application should be able to use the uncompressed stuff and it won't change anything. Yes the users still need your driver with the decompressor, but it will allow people to use external decompressor as soon as there is a library or application that support it and not need to wait the next kernel release and that their distribution support this kernel.

Matthieu


PS : sorry for breaking the thread, I wasn't sucribed to the kernel mailling list before.
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