/*
 * linux_dvb: drivers for the Siemens Fujitsu DVB PCI card
 * Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Ralph  Metzler 
 *                       & Marcus Metzler for convergence integrated media GmbH  

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 * The author can be reached at ralph@convergence.de, 

 * the project's page is at http://linuxtv.org/dvb/
 */


This is another early release of a Linux driver for the Siemens/Fujitsu DVB
PCI card. As such there are many features still missing and not everything
might work as intended. But we are at a point where we think that the driver
is useful to some people and an exchange with a larger user base would be
benefitial.

Please note that only the Siemens/Fujitsu DVB card is supported by us.
Other, also identical, cards by other manufacturers may work but are NOT supported.
Siemens/Fujitsu was the only manufacturer willing to provide documentation and
support for a Linux driver.

For installation of the driver please follow the instructions in INSTALL.
It should work on all kernel versions >=2.4.3


This work is based on parts of drivers by the following authors:

MXB:           Siemens mxb TV card and generic SAA7146 driver

               Michael Hunold <m.hunold@gmx.de>

DVB:           older version of the Siemens DVB card driver 

               Christian Theiss <mistert@rz.fh-augsburg.de>

Stradis:       Stradis MPEG2 driver 

               Nathan Laredo <laredo@gnu.org>

which were all released under the GNU GPL. 

The firmware of the DVB card contained in DVB/driver/Root and 
DVB/driver/Dpram is under copyright of Fujitsu-Siemens and Convergence
integrated media. It is a separate program which runs on the internal 
ARM core of the DVB card and is NOT distributed under the GPL.
Distribution and usage of these 2 files is only allowed together 
with the Linux DVB driver. 

ralph@convergence.de 2001-12-30



