Phil, Comments in line below. Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR FlexRadio Systems Ph: 512-250-5435 Fax: 512-233-5143 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.flex-radio.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip > Covington > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:19 AM > To: Flexradio > Subject: [Flexradio] Firewire > > Will Flex provide a driver for Linux for the Firewire > interface to the SDR-5000? We plan to have a Linux driver under FreeBOB for the FLEX-5000 (note not SDR) later this year. Also, does the company who makes > the Firewire interface chip provide the source code to the > drivers or do they have a driver development kit? I will have to look into this further but I know that the current Windows drivers are proprietary to the chip vendor. We had to sign a NDA in order to receive source code. I am fairly confident that the Linux drivers will be open under GPL but I will have to check. Do they > have a SDK for the Firewire interface chip available for free > (as in beer) or open source? The licensing of the run time system is under ECOS: http://ecos.sourceware.org/license-overview.html This means that the bootloader/HAL environment is open source but proprietary extensions do are not required to be under the licensing agreement. Because of FCC rules and the chip vendors proprietary code running on the device, we will not be able to release firmware source, other than ECOS itself. We will publish an API which allow control of all apropriate control functions in the radio. Unless you like "bit banging" for the fun of it, you should have everything you need to talk to the hardware. > > Phil N8VB > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio > Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
