MPeg2 Board

[Bob Black <bblack@crosswinds.net>]

A couple of questions regarding the BMK board / Visiontech chip drivers.
1)  How were the drivers available under GPL, i would assume it is 
    because that huge ass microcode file has all of the proprietary code.  
    At first glance it looks like the kfir.c file reads the firmware into 
    memory, does it then execute it so the driver can be gpled?  
    i don't know enough about the rest of the code to figure out if it is 
    ever executed.

2)  How similar is the BMK board to the WinTV-PVR ( 880 )  The only thing 
    i would guess is that from the drivers it looks like the BMK board 
    uses a philips chip and hauppauge probably uses a BT/Conexant chip 
    because they use them in all of their other products.
    ( Though i can't confirm that because i can't ever find any board 
      level specs on their page. )
    How easy would it be to modify the drivers for hauppage or any of the 
    other boards that utilize the kfir chip?

3)  Does the VisionTek chip support hardware assisted decoding?
    Not that modern computers need it or there will be linux support for 
    it in the near future unless you guys are working on it for your 
    set top box stuff.

Thanks for the driver, and sorry about the run-on sentences.
Bob Black