On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Devin Heitmueller
<dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bert Massop <bert.mas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> The datasheet for the TDA18218 can be obtained from NXP:
>> http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/TDA18218HN.pdf
>>
>> That's all the information I have at the moment, maybe Mike has some
>> other information (like the Application Note mentioned in the
>> datasheet, that claims to contain information on writing drivers, but
>> cannot be found anywhere).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Bert
>
> Took a quick look at that datasheet.  I would guess between that
> datasheet and a usbsnoop, there is probably enough there to write a
> driver that basically works for your particular hardware if you know
> what you are doing.  The register map is abbreviated, but probably
> good enough...
>
> Devin

The datasheet is missing too much important information needed to
write a fully featured driver for the part, and I wouldn't recommend
using a usbsnoop for this type of tuner, but be my guest and prove me
wrong.

You might be able to get it working, but you'll end up with tons of
binary blobs hardcoded for each frequency, unless you use a
programming guide.  Unfortunately, I don't have one that I can share
:-/

I think you would be much better off purchasing supported hardware, instead.

Good luck, though...

-Mike
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