Felix hatte mal das "Vergnügen" einen Broadcom BCM970012/BCM970015 Crystal HD Decoder unter Linux zum Laufen zu kriegen. War so um das Jahr 2011-2012.
Es war der ranzigste Kackhaufen jemals. Nach der ersten gestarteten Wiedergabe gab es randomisiert eingefrorene Video-Wiedergabe, Kernel-Hupsis und Einfrierungen gleich des ganzen Systems. Der Quelltext war teilweise in den Kernelbaum aufgenommen worden, andere Teile aber nicht. Der letzte Treiber von Broadcom stammt aus dem Jahre 2014.
So wie ich das mitbekommen habe, wurden diese Probleme "gelöst", indem das Stück Hartware in die Tonne getreten wurde.
Wenn Felix da nun
>engineering-first
liest, könnte er kotzen. Ja ich bin mett.
>The drivers in the Kernel Staging section became bogged down by the kernel code processes and politics, and received less attention than the separately maintained drivers. Therefore, the in-kernel drivers are out of date, and should not be used.
>It also appears that the in-kernel drivers only support the 970012, and 970015 support was never fully completed. (reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/27/103)
>The drivers straight from Broadcom are substantially out of date, and should not be used.
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Broadcom_Crystal_HD#Feb._2014_Update
>The Flash Player 11.x versions with Crystal HD are unstable. The playback starts, but after sometime, lags happen and I get problems with the crystalhd soon -> stalled and failed. In these cases, if Firefox freezes and if I kill the flash's plugin-container process, the whole system freezes, sometimes I get kernel oops during playback.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1959705&p=11855806#post11855806
>Also, when I loaded a new video file in VLC without closing the player first, I got a kernel panic :-p
Und den Quelltext muss man auch händisch flicken.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1078134#p1078134
>Unfortunately it's 50/50 as to whether a video will play or it will just freeze completely (whether that's an improvement from just shutting off the video output completely is debatable!).
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=155691