macOS Porting Linux driver of TV tuner device to OSX

[iamnotme]

Hi All,

First post here, new user. Just got my first ever mac, a 13" rMBP with 512GB SSD and 16GB ram. I absolutely love the machine. Would love to have the quad core but I need to be portable and I thought the 15" is a bit too big, but that's really for another thread.

I am a fairly experienced C and Java programmer but the reason behind me going Apple OS X is I have a device I work with with linux and Windoz drivers that I need to port to OS X. I'm reading the manual from Apple's dev site but I wanted to see if anyone has any pointers. The device itself is not overly complicated, it is essentially a DVB-T tv tuner stick. It isn't too different from an off the shelf TV tuner, it's just got some functions that I use at work.

So if anyone has done anything similar, I would really welcome pointers.

Thanks

 

[moongravy]

Have a look at the drivers for iTele. Might be useful as a start.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Do you have the source code for the Linux driver?

Do you have documentation on the protocols the device uses?

If you have neither, I feel you're SOOL.

 

[iamnotme]

Do you have the source code for the Linux driver?

Do you have documentation on the protocols the device uses?

If you have neither, I feel you're SOOL.

Yes I have it all.

 

[moonman239]

If you have neither, I feel you're SOOL.

Correction: SOL.

Edit: OP, you can build OS X programs with your C knowledge. In fact, I can write Objective-C and C++ in the same source file(s).

 

[Madd the Sane]

It depends on where you want the driver to be: user space or driver. Writing a kernel driver (for IOKit) will require learning C++. As for user-space, all the APIs you would need to access the hardware are in C, although they use the retain-release cycle.