[mythtv-users] How to patch LIRC for HD-PVR150

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Oct 27 14:32:14 UTC 2010


On Oct 27, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:

>> Needs a kernel driver. Prior to 2.6.36, you're looking at building
>> lirc_mceusb out-of-tree. I'm pretty sure there are Gentoo ebuilds for
>> the lirc kernel drivers somewhere. (Didn't apply to lirc_zilog, since
>> it wasn't in the lirc tree itself). In 2.6.36 and later, its driven by
>> the mceusb driver (which is lirc_mceusb ported to a new in-kernel IR
>> infrastructure, with backwards compatibility included).
>> 
> Thanks - so if I upgrade to the 2.6.36 kernel, I should be able to run
> an MCE usb remote system without the same compatibility issues that the
> HDPVR has at the moment, or would I still need version 0.9.0 of lirc to
> make that work? 

You'd still need either lirc 0.9.0 or a patched earlier lirc build for ioctl compatibility if you use 2.6.36.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com





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