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manual: Add link to DAHDI driver 

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@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ the `libosmo-abis` support for `osmo-e1d`.
More information about `osmo-e1d` can be found at its homepage
https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-e1d/wiki
=== DAHDI driver
DAHDI (Digium Asterisk Hardware Driver Interface) is an extremely
popular driver for a variety of POTS/PSTN and also TDM interface boards
by originally Zaptel, later Digium and now most recently Sangoma.
DAHDI is supported by a wide range of open source PBX / softswitch software,
including Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and yate.
There is an experimental DAHDI driver for the icE1usb available from
the `laforge/icE1usb` branch of the https://github.com/osmocom/dahdi-linux
git repository.
When using that DAHDI Linux kernel driver, there is no need for
osmo-e1d. The USB interface is directly managed inside the kernel.
=== Other software
you can interface 3rd party applications with osmo-e1d in the following
@ -24,8 +40,6 @@ ways:
* by adding support for `osmo-e1d`, e.g. via `libosmo-e1d` to the
respective appliation
* by implementing a device driver for whatever hardware interface (e.g.
for DAHDI) supported by your software
* by directly implementing the USB interface exposed by icE1usb in your
software