Downloads

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Kernel patches

See below for how to apply patches.

• No patch is needed for newer 2.4 kernels and 2.6.
• A 2.6 kernel git tree is available for very advanced users and developers:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git
• patch for 2.4.2-2.4.4 (released 2001-05-22)
• patch for 2.2.16-2.2.19 (released 2001-05-27)

Libraries

Libraw1394 is required for any program which wants to use the raw1394 driver to access the bus directly (in other words: download it, you'll need it). Libiec61883 builds upon libraw1394 to provide the standard interface for streaming media I/O including DV, MPEG-2 Transport Stream, and Audio and Music Data.

• libraw1394 1.3.0 tarball (md5sum)
• libiec61883 1.1.0 tarball (md5sum)

Related software

For protocol drivers, utilities, applications, and libraries using the subsystem see the links page.

Applying patches

What follows is a very brief and concise description of the installation. For detailed, thorough instructions, please see Getting Started.

To apply the patch you need the kernel sources installed, preferably the exact version the patch was made for. Then do:

cd /path/to/kernel
zcat /path/to/patchfile.gz | patch -p1

The patch program can adapt to different versions, but only if the files are not too different (more specifically if the lines it tries to patch have not changed). If you don't have the exact version and still tried, it worked if patch didn't print "reject" messages, otherwise you are on your own.