Wolfgang Wegner writes: > Hi, > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Martin Zwickel wrote: > > > I suppose this concerns the STB0899 and friends? > > > Since there will be open alternatives I guess everybody would > > > use those instead of such a "binary blob and wrapper thingy" anyway. > > > > I think there is no choice to avoid the stapi thingy, and I haven't > > seen any opensource alternative. > > is the STB0899 spec released to public so one could code an open-source > driver? No, but I heard from at least two unrelated sources that ST would be fine with open drivers if none of their original specs or sources show up in it. > I know the original ST driver for it, and if the choice is to write a > wrapper just to use this or code something new from scratch, I would > do the latter... There is of course already Manu Abrahams implementation which should be almost finished. For an older version see in his stb0899 repository. Ralph _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
