[linux-dvb] Re: Teletext and DMX_SET_PES_FILTER

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:22:29AM +0100, Ralph Metzler wrote:
> Ragnar Sundblad writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > --On den 23 februari 2003 10:45 +0100 Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de> 
>  > wrote:
>  > 
>  > > The CAM handling should be the same in both drivers.
>  > 
>  > Ok, then I have misunderstood something. I thought the new
>  > Convergence firmware was different in that it was somehow
>  > more transparent and let the CAM talking to the application
>  > instead of doing it itself.
>  > 
>  > Is this not the case? Can someone please explain the
>  > differences then - just for the education of the rest of us?
> 
> 
> This feature is nothing new. We wrote it over a year ago. 
> It just never was compiled into the public firmware before. 
> The firmware in our driver is compiled with this newer interface
> now.

It was written for Convergence. We wanted it so we could use
the DVB-S cards as a development platform for our CI protocol
stack. We did not release it because the documentation necessary
to write such an CI protocol stack was not open, so we figured
that it would not be of use for anyone. But it seems that this
has now changed...

Regards,
Johannes


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