Have you looked here to see if there are drivers not kernel based for it?

https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v5.15.88/source/drivers/media/dvb-frontends

On 15.01.23 21:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

Well, DVB is still a current standard. If the kernel loses supports for it, that
would be quite a loss in my opinion.

You can't buy any usable hardware (basically the only choice is more or less painful USB boxes or very expensive pciexpress ones) anyway.

I actually bought a pciexpress to pci bridge to keep my old SkyStarS2 (PCI) because there was simply no feasible pciexpress alternative available after upgrading my home server pc to x86-64-v3.

The least painful way of using DVB on linux is to use the sundtek usb devices which have a userspace driver (guess why the vendor opted for that instead of a kernel driver...).

BTW: the drivers that will be removed (if there is nobody stepping up and maintains them), are for DVB-S cards, not DVB-S2 (I don't know about DVB-C, luckily that cup passed on me). In the not so far future, this hardware will be obsolete because more and more transponders will switch to DVB-S2 with it's better spectral efficiency.

The microchannel bus also got removed from the kernel 10 years ago, even though some machines still existed (and Alan Cox even offered to give away all his MCA machines to anyone willing to keep it going ;-) and the world is still turning.