At Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:12:31 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:39:51PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:30:29 -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:59:36PM -0400, Giacomo Comes wrote:
Hi, I have a laptop with a braodcom crystalhd accelerator board. On such laptop with openSUSE 12.1 I was able to use mplayer to play video using such accelerator board. With openSUSE 12.2 it is not possible anymore. The reason mplayer fails is that the device file /dev/crystalhd is missing. In 12.1 it was created when the module crystalhd was loaded, in 12.2 it is not.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
I have found where the problem is. The staging kernel module in 12.2 only support the 70012 model and I have the 70015 one. The kernel module in 12.1 is based on a more recent version of the broadcom driver that supports both devices.
Right, broadcom-crystalhd-kmp was dropped from 12.2 as we thought that the staging driver in the kernel is updated enough, but obviously a wrong assumption. The upstream staging tree should be updated, too.
Yes, please, it would be great if someone could send me a patch that updates the upstream kernel driver version to the latest, having it go out of sync is not good.
The problem is that a diff is quite large, and the broadcom code doesn't contain the fixes and cleanups in the staging tree. More badly, the development git tree of crystalhd seems gone from the net (although the commits there weren't in the quality as standard kernel patches). In short, it's not so trivial to take it in as of now... Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org