Georg Acher wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:21:45AM -0700, Jeremy Jones wrote: > >> I checked out the latest Reelbox testing svn code and browsed the code to >> see if it supports this device. I didn't look too thoroughly but it appears >> the reelbox-0.9.0 plugin does support it. It looks like communication to >> the kernel space driver is done through shared memory and I did see some >> kernel space code to create this shared memory device (/dev/hdshmem). I'm >> sure there is a closed source firmware or kernel module that is also used >> but since Reelbox is based on vdr this shouldn't be too much of a problem. > > Actually there's not much closed source that affects the usage. On the PC > side there's none, That is great :) > on the card side it's only the driver for the HDMI-chip > in the kernel (otherwise Silicon Image would shoot us) and of course the > firmwares for the internal audio/video-coprocessors (delivered by Micronas). Well, dvb-ttpci microcode is completely closed, so it is no better in this regard. I don't think having non-free microcode is going to be a problem. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
