[vdr] Re: Hauppauge DVB-C, Conax and PCMCIA?

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Montag, 10. November 2003 18:57 schrieben Sie:

> > I volunteered to do the things around (gathering vendor-IDs,
> > registering a major number for CAMs, etc.) several times, but I
> > didn't find anyone who volunteered to do the programming part for
> > the kernel-module.
>
> I see. However, the specialized PCMCIA slot provided by the Common
> Interface plugin module for the Hauppauge card are supported properly
> by the Linux drivers?
>
> How well is the CAM <=> CI interaction understood by the open source
> drivers, would the initialization and use of the CAM in a real PCMCIA
> slot prove to be a problem in this case?

There are no drivers for the CAM. All CAM stuff is handled inside the AV711x 
by firmware. There's only a defined driver-layer for the user-space software 
to access the CAM-functions.

But for using a CAM in a real PCMCIA-slot you need to implement a 
kernel-module.

Rene


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