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patjak / facetimehd

Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Which branch shall I use ? #121

Closed jbfavre closed 7 years ago

jbfavre commented 7 years ago

Hello @patjak and thanks for your work ! I'm building the Debian package of bcwc_pcie.

It used to be an Intent to package work, but has changed to a Request for packaging, meaning other people would like to see it included in Debian.

My question is: which branch am I supposed to use ? mainline or master ? It seems mainline is the most active one. but is it considered as stable, or is it a sort of dev branch ?

Waiting for your answer, Cheers

WhyNotHugo commented 7 years ago

FWIW, in Arch we use mainline, but we cherry-pick two commits[1], since without these, the package won't work (no dkms.conf).

AFAIK, the work on mainline is targeted at getting this into the mainline kernel, but it does have some small fixes over master.

[1]: 76945312a9d2e786bebc9bb5711f5962365c5c20 and 4901c363e8688a46b83bfcbee92c1588dca6054c

jbfavre commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the answer @hobarrera Will have a look on mainline then :)

Cheers