On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote: > To pick up this old topic (as I just got the wrong 930C delivered :( ): > > What is blocking the development of a si2165 driver? Lacking specs (due > to NDAs)? Or lacking interest / developer bandwidth? Probably a bit of both. I've got the documentation under NDA, and last I checked it's not otherwise publicly available. That said, the chip has been around for several years and no developer has ever cared to do a reverse engineered driver. The chip isn't overly complicated (I could probably write a driver for it in a week even without the datasheets), alas there has never really been any interest. > In case of the > latter, how much effort may it take for a kernel hacker without > particular experience in the DVB subsystem to get things running? Not rocket science, for sure. Probably the bigger issue is familiarity with reverse engineering techniques and a good understanding of how demodulators work. Learning the API itself is the easy part (given there are plenty of example drivers to use as a model). I can count on one hand the number of developers who are actively contributing tuner/demod drivers. There just is very little developer interest in this area nowadays. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
