On Friday 29 June 2007 18:24, 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, on the card side it's only the driver for the HDMI-chip > in the kernel Damm, that's the nvidia way. They decide on which kernel it runs. If I need for some other device a different kernel which they don't / won't support, I'm left alone. To my opinion that is a nogo way. I doubt if that's compatible with GPL. > (otherwise Silicon Image would shoot us) and of course the > firmwares for the internal audio/video-coprocessors (delivered by Micronas). -- Stefan Lucke _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
