Hi, In that site you will only find their development framework (compiler and friends), rootfs, kernel, u-boot and the few open source drivers they support (like the one for DirectFB). Their proprietary STAPI drivers (more than 20: i2c, frontends, demux, display layers, blitter...) are only available to unfortunate customers via their FTP site. In the DVB case, they use a different design architecture (a heritage from their OS21 operating system), so their DVB core and drivers are different to the Linux DVB. Regards, -- Pedro Aguilar On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:11 -0400, Steven Toth wrote: > Mark H wrote: > > > Well if they run linux I dont see how they can provide a proprietary > > > implementation... I guess the shortest to get support on linux is to > > > ask them to release the source code! > > I know there are many controversial discussions with respect to closed > > source > > projects for Linux. The fact is that ST Microelectronics has implemented > > kernel > > modules with a proprietary interface (STAPI) for the DVB and is not > > willing to > > disclose the interface details to open source projects. On the other > > hand STM > > provides STLinux distribution for boards based on STi7109 & Co. This > > distribution > > contains open source drivers only the output part of the system (V4Land > > ALSA). > > > > A copy of the chip datasheet is available on the web. Though, its > > legality is questionnable. > > > > There have been some questions about the API two years ago so I was > > wondering > > whether anybody has started working on an implementation. > > Mark, > > Do ST have a public site that I can download the STi7109 Linux > toolchain, tree and associated utils from? > > Regards, > > - Steve > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
