On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Roberto Ragusa wrote: Hi, > Leonid Podolny wrote: >> Where an actual software demuxing takes place? Do I have to reimplement >> it at the driver or does a framework take care of it for me? Linux DVB contains a software demuxer. You can easily register and feed it. >> 3) Is there some sort of a skeleton driver existing? > > Have a look at the skystar2 driver. No offense, Roberto, but for a newbie to dvb and linux drivers, the skystar2.c is not so good. I for myself referred to the usb drivers, when I started to work on a drivers last year. And, I heard, that the PCI initialization in the skystar2.c is not yet a good reference, too. Leonid, Probably you'll have to write two drivers. A bus driver (PCI or USB or whatever) and a frontend driver. Your bus driver needs to register some dvb-stuff (dvb_adapter, demux-device, maybe an i2c-adapter). For the dibusb-driver I put every bigger part in a separate file. For the dvb stuff (which is located in the bus-driver) you can look into dvb-dibusb-dvb.c for an example. Additionally you have to register an i2c adapter, if your frontend/demodulator is connected via i2c. See the dvb-dibusb-fe-i2c.c or flexcop-i2c.c in current dvb-kernel (b2c2/) for an example. Then of course you have to write a frontend-driver, or (with some luck) you can use an existing driver. Depending on your type (-T/-S/-C) you should refer to appropriate, existing frontend-source. It's not too complicated. Will you driver be OpenSource? best regards, Patrick. -- Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
