Stefan Lucke wrote: > 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.
If I understood correctly, you only need proprietary parts for the kernel that runs *in* the card. The kernel running on your actual system does not need proprietary parts, leaving you free to use a different kernel. > 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). -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
