[linux-dvb] Re: Siemens documentation

[Ralph Metzler <rjkm@convergence.de>]

Carsten Koch writes:
 > Ralph Metzler wrote:
 > ....
 > > But please first read the available documentation. I will not
 > > put in comments on obvious things like:
 > 
 > I do not want to argue about what's more or what's less obvious.
 > My point was that it is possible to change the driver in a way 
 > that would make the (unavailable) Siemens documentation superfluous.
 > My question was whether the NDA would prevent that.


The only real documents regarding the Linux driver which are under 
NDA are the ones for the VLSI chips. 
The other "documentation" was only Windows driver source code. Since
this is converted and under GPL this part of the Siemens
"documentation" already is superfluous.
The meanings of the important registers in the VLSI chips should 
be clear from the existing drivers.

For the firmware our only documentation also was just the source
code. Later we got the documents for the TI library, but this of
course only describes the calls to the library, not the other code 
which is using it.

Sorry, there is no "explain it all in easy little steps" documentation
we got hidden somewhere. I wished there were.


Ralph


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