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Re: Wheezy (3.6.11+, Raspbeery Pi), no rc-core (lirc) support?



On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 21:25 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:51:18PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Can someone confirm that the wheezy distribution for the raspberry Pi does not contain the latest incantation of LIRC i.e. the IR support based on the rc-core code found in drivers/media/rc?
> > 
> > I want to write a driver for a Raspberry Pi blaster (IR transmitter) and was going to start from the rc-core code but canot find any trace of it on the Raspberry Pi.
> > 
> > FYI, the distribution I'm using shows the following...
> > 
> > pi@canteenpi ~ $ uname -r
> > 3.6.11+
> > pi@canteenpi ~ $
> Are you sure you're using a Debian-Kernel? If not, better ask the
> rasbian people (or whereever you got your OS from).

Indeed - as Broadcom still doesn't seem committed to getting the
necessary drivers upstream (I realise they've made some attempt), the
RPi doesn't and probably never will run Debian official kernel packages.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If more than one person is responsible for a bug, no one is at fault.

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