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,
That is great :)
on the card side it's only the driver for the HDMI-chip in the kernel (otherwise Silicon Image would shoot us) and of course the firmwares for the internal audio/video-coprocessors (delivered by Micronas).
Well, dvb-ttpci microcode is completely closed, so it is no better in this regard. I don't think having non-free microcode is going to be a problem.