Hello,

I have a PCI-Express video capture card that has a proprietary driver for Linux.
I have some experience with programming in C, and so I would like to start a 
hobby project to develop a free/libre driver for this device for Linux.
Of course I don’t have access to any documentation about how to communicate 
with this device, so I think I will need to reverse-engineer the way the 
existing driver communicates with the hardware. How could I achieve this ?
Also, the long term goal of this project would be to have this driver merged 
into mainline, so what is allowed or not while doing this to avoid problematic 
legal ramifications ?
Thank you for your help.

Best regards.
Tomek Lecocq
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