Re: Digital-tv card drivers and API discussion

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 04/14/04

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    Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
To: Teemu.Parkkinen@patria.fi

    On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 Teemu.Parkkinen@patria.fi wrote:

    > Hi all,
    >
    > I am about to write a digital tv-driver for my dvb-c -card. Because
    > FreeBSD does not yet have any dvb-devices and I don't have any prior
    > driver development experience, I have a couple of questions for you.
    >
    > 1) Should we use Linux-DVB API as a reference, or should we consider
    > some changes to it? The API seems to be constantly changing and
    > improving. Version 3 is available here:
    > http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvb/linux-dvb-api-1.0.0.pdf but they are
    > currently working on version 4. In my opinion, the API should be
    > minimal, but complete, so there is no need to constantly add new
    > features to it.

    Please check in with the freebsd-multimedia mailing list before you start.
    They were working on a new vidoe API and this sort of thing would slot
    into it nicely. The bktr developers hang out there and can assist you
    with issues specific to video hardware. 

    -- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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