On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I was looking around to find that there is a driver for that Fujitsu > MB86A16 inside the "Linux Mantis Driver" project, Fujitsu MB86A16 > DVB-S/DSS DC Receiver driver made by Manu Abraham > http://www.verbraak.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Mantis_driver. > > I've done a few tests with usbsnoop and other tools but USB sniffer > doesn't see any valid command, jut a bunch of bytes that makes no > sense: > http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/firmware.html#FX2
What you've pointed at here is a page that describes using a trick with the pvrusb2 driver to suck an image of the FX2 firmware out of the FX2 processor itself. That won't work in your case however since it requires that the pvrusb2 driver already be talking to the chip. The procedure documented at that link is really about firmware extraction not reverse-engineering the data link protocol between the FX2 and the host. > > I will try my luck compiling that Fujitsu driver, but my best guess is > that without a proper I/O from that FX2 it will end up with nothing at > all. It's that data link protocol that you need to understand. Please realize that the FX2 is "just" an 8051 microcontroller which happens to have a fairly interesting USB device interface resident on the same silicon. Beyond that, the chip's behavior is really up to whatever the firmware does. For pvrusb2-driven devices that firmware's behavior is pretty well understood. That driver also benefits from the fact that essentially all USB hosted analog (and some hybrid) capture cards with an mpeg encoder and an FX2 all are derivations from a reference design by a single vendor. That reference design included "reference firmware", which each manufacturer of course tweaked a bit. For that reason, all those different devices tend to implement a similar enough data link protocol that the pvrusb2 driver can handle them all with the same implementation. The problem is, we don't know if any of that is true for your device. You are dealing with a digital-only capture device so it can't be based on that same reference design. It is entirely sensible that the FX2 firmware was set up in that case with similar requirements in mind so the result *might* be similar in behavior. But it really isn't known. So when you scan documentation for other drivers (e.g. pvrusb2) you must really look at it all with a rather large helping of scepticism. Mike Krufky mentions a driver for the TDA18271 and he's right. There is one - because the pvrusb2 driver also relies on that when driving an HVR-1950 capture device which happens to use that same part. But that isn't "the" driver you need. What you need is a bridge driver that can implement the host side of the data link protocol implemented by your device's FX2. That is what the pvrusb2 driver does for the capture devices it handles. With the proper bridge driver set up, then the TDA18271 sub-device driver can ride over that data link to establish communications with its hardware in the device. THEN you'll be on the way to having something working. I know that none of the about is the answer you're looking for. But perhaps it will lead you in the right direction. It is entirely possible that there is another bridge driver out there which can handle this part, but I can't help you there. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
