Smartcard driver ---------------- This is a release of Smartcard driver, designed and implemented by Vivek K S (ksvivek@csa.iisc.ernet.in). Dept. of CSA, Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore Smartcard Driver for the simputer is a driver for the Philips TDA8008 smartcard controller. It uses the ALPAR protocol to communicate with the controller. The controller supports ISO7816-4 complaint cards following the T=0 and T=1 protocol. The Smartcard driver for the x86, is meant for the Philips TDA8008 development board. It uses the serial port to communicate with the development board. In the case of the arm platform, the driver uses a kernel module to communicate with the controller. This is because a polling serial driver is used rather than the default interrupt-mode serial driver in Linux. Currently, the smartcards that have been tested include BULL-CP8, Schlumberger Payflex and Philips DS Personalization cards. Use alpar_test to check communication with the controller. Smartcard driver is distributed under the GNU General Public License.