[linux-dvb] about firmware

[Marcus O.C. Metzler <mocm@convergence.de>]

dan writes:
 > 
 > Is there any chance to get embedded viaccess with the siemens (technotrend) software? 
 > The question came to me this way:
 > 
 > 1. Nokia alliance 
 > 2. Nokia 9800 which seems to have similar chipset has embedded viaccess
 > 3. The board is shipped under different versions either with sim card socket or a connector for external cardreader.
 > 
 > So is it possible to get a firmware (no sources) for this job ?
 > 

Theoretically, yes, but one would need to have a license to do
that. The hardware has the capability, you would only need to attach
some kind of smartcard reader.
AFAIK, we are not planning to do that for this card. I could also
imagine that such a license would cost some money, so even if we would
implement it, we would have to have a way to get those costs back.

Marcus

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