Neville H Chandler wrote: > I just ordered a PVR card and would like to get involved in > the driver development effort. Where do I start? The PVR uses the KFir MPEG 2 chipset. So you can start by looking at the MPEG 2 board available at www.linuxtv.org They also use the KFir chipset and the opensource GPL drivers for it are a good starting point for the Hauppauge card. The KFir chipset does not sit on the PCI bus directly The linuxtv.org card uses a PCI interface chip from PIX. The Hauppauge board uses the Bt878 as the PCI interface chip. And the linuxtv.org board uses the KFir chip to drive the i2c bus (which connects the tuner and various audio devices) whereas the PVR uses the i2c bus from the Bt878. Finally on the PVR, we need to load up some binary data into one of the programmable gate arrays. So, I'd take a look at the linuxtv.org things first. Roger
