Re: SAA716x DVB driver

Hi Tycho, On 20/01/18 15:49, Tycho Lürsen wrote: > Right, but we still need a maintainer. Are you capable/willing to > volunteer for the job? If no-one else will then yes I can, but I can't claim to know these devices inside out. It would really depend on what's required of a maintainer, I'm

Re: SAA716x DVB driver

Hi Tycho, On 19/01/18 13:59, Tycho Lürsen wrote: > Hi Jemma, > > I'm with you: let's get merged at least something! > > Did you find a maintainer for this driver? > I can do simple stuff like in my fork of Soeren Moch's repo, but thats > where it ends. I dont have the knowledge needed to

Re: [GIT PULL] SAA716x DVB driver

On 03/12/17 14:11, Soeren Moch wrote: On 03.12.2017 11:57, Jemma Denson wrote: On 02/12/17 23:59, Soeren Moch wrote: All the entries in the TODO file are not specific for saa716x_ff. Ah, it's been a few months since I looked at that. I think some of the things listed I had already identified

Re: [GIT PULL] SAA716x DVB driver

On 02/12/17 23:59, Soeren Moch wrote: On 02.12.2017 20:49, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:51:16 + Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> escreveu: Would I be correct in thinking the main blocker to this is the *_ff features used by the S2-6400 card? There's plenty of

Re: [GIT PULL] SAA716x DVB driver

Hi Mauro, On 27/11/17 11:24, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Em Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:28:37 +0100 Tycho Lürsen escreveu: Hi Mauro, afaik the last communication about submission of this driver was about two months ago. This driver is important to me, because I own several

Re: [PATCH v2] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

On 17/08/17 20:50, Jemma Denson wrote: On 16/08/17 10:42, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: I've just tested both your v2 patch and changes I'm suggesting above; both work fine on my setup. Do you want me to send a v3? Yeah, sure! I'm currently in travel, returning only on Friday, and I don't have

[PATCH v4] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

on overload if dcl enabled - add short sleep before re-enabling dcl - only check overload and potentially return EINVAL if device is on v4 - revert v3 sleep logic changes to remove tuning delays Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson

Re: [PATCH v2] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

On 16/08/17 10:42, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: I've just tested both your v2 patch and changes I'm suggesting above; both work fine on my setup. Do you want me to send a v3? Yeah, sure! I'm currently in travel, returning only on Friday, and I don't have the hardware to test. So, if you can

[PATCH v3] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

override_or option so should still work fine on cx88 based cards which disable dynamic current limit. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/isl6421.c | 77 +++

Re: [PATCH v2] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

Hi Mauro, On 13/08/17 20:35, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: This Kaffeine's BZ: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374693 affects SkyStar S2 PCI DVB-S/S2 rev 3.3 device. It could be due to a Kernel bug. While checking the Isil 6421, comparing with its manual, available at:

Re: [PATCH RFC] media: isl6421: add checks for current overflow

Hi Mauro, Just tried this on my card - unfortunately the patch as is doesn't work. On 13/08/17 13:10, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: This Kaffeine's BZ: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374693 affects SkyStar S2 PCI DVB-S/S2 rev 3.3 device. It could be due to a Kernel bug. While

Re: [PATCH] [media] cx24120: do not allow an invalid delivery system types

nical.com> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) Yes, that's needed, thanks! Acked-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the

Re: EIT off-air tables for HD in UK

On 14/06/16 19:31, Nick Whitehead wrote: I've just started to use this to recover EIT information from the transmitted stream (UK, freeview). I've managed to get the tables OK, but the EIT name / description for all HD channels is scrambled. Some research indicates these are huffman encoded

Re: Driver Technisat Skystar S2 and Compro VideoMate S350

Hi Neil, Sorry, I can't help with the Compro, but maybe with the Technisat :) On 10/03/16 13:53, Neil Cordwell wrote: Technisat Skystar S2 When I first installed this card I couldn't find the firmware dvb-fe-cx24120-1.20.58.2.fw. Downloaded this from github and now there are no errors in

[v4l-utils PATCH 1/1] dvbv5-zap.c: fix setting signal handlers

Signal handlers are currently out of order - SIGALRM is always set, and SIGINT only set when timeout is set. These should be the other way round. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> --- utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

[v4l-utils PATCH-v2 1/4] dvbv5-zap.c: fix setting signal handlers

Signal handlers are currently out of order - SIGALRM is always set, and SIGINT only set when timeout is set. These should be the other way round. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> --- utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

[v4l-utils PATCH-v2 2/4] dvbv5-zap.c: allow timeout with -x

Timeout handlers aren't set when running with -x (exit after tuning). This patch adds handlers so -t can be used with -x. Without a timeout dvbv5-zap will run forever if there's no signal, preventing it's use by scripts to obtain signal stats. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.

[v4l-utils PATCH-v2 4/4] dvbv5-zap.c: Move common signals code into function

Code repeated 3 times; move to common function. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> --- utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c | 33 + 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c b/utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c index 2d71307..e

Patches to dvbv5-zap

This patch series replaces the single patch sent earlier today. Essentially it's to allow -t to be used at the same time as -x. We have a requirement to show signal stats in a web interface and a lack of timeout would cause issues when there's no signal. The other patches are fixing bugs I

[v4l-utils PATCH-v2 3/4] dvbv5-zap.c: fix wrong signal

Signal here should be SIGALRM and not SIGINT in order to call do_timeout(). Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson <jden...@gmail.com> --- utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c b/utils/dvb/dvbv5-zap.c index 2d19d45..2d71307

Re: AverMedia HD Duet (White Box) A188WB drivers

Hi Manu, On 08/10/15 17:28, Manu Abraham wrote: Hi, I just got back at work again. Will set things up this weekend/next week. Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this? As you're probably aware there are quite a few drivers waiting for saa716x to be integrated into the tree;

Re: [BUG] TechniSat SkyStar S2 - problem tuning DVB-S2 channels

Hi Robert, On 18/11/15 19:08, Robert wrote: Normally i'm using kaffeine, but i have tried dvbv5-scan now. Unfortunately it segfaults. I have attached the full output including the backtrace [1] I can't help with the segfault I'm afraid, but looking at that log it is definitely not managing

Re: [BUG] TechniSat SkyStar S2 - problem tuning DVB-S2 channels

Hi Robert, On 18/11/15 15:03, Robert wrote: Hello, I am using a "TechniSat SkyStar S2" DVB-S2 card. Drivers for this card are included in the kernel tree since 4.2. Unfortunately, i can't tune to ANY DVB-S2 channels with this new in-tree driver. DVB-S channels are working fine. Id[1] of the

Re: [PATCH 3/4] cx24120: Take control of b2c2 receive stream

Hi Mauro, On 10/06/15 00:56, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Hmm... if patch 1 is enough to fix the issue, and patch 4 may break things, I'll apply only patch 1/4 for now. If Patrick agrees, and you find a way to avoid breakages, please resubmit for me to apply the other ones. Regards, Mauro

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] b2c2: Add option to skip the first 6 pid filters

Hi Antti, On 01/06/15 07:14, Antti Palosaari wrote: On 05/30/2015 09:10 PM, Jemma Denson wrote: The flexcop bridge chip has two banks of hardware pid filters - an initial 6, and on some chip revisions an additional bank of 32. A bug is present on the initial 6 - when changing transponders one

[PATCH v2 3/4] b2c2: Add external stream control

Some demods are aware that their stream has stopped, such as whilst tuning. Allow them to control the flexcop receive and output streams. This avoids flexcop_pci_irq_check_work from triggering and resetting the stream unneccesarily due to a lack of data. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden

[PATCH v2 0/4] SkystarS2 pid filtering fix and stream control

interfere with hw_filter code isn't missed. * Control both streams - so output stream aswell as receive. * Track the external stream state so we don't leave the stream turned off in a reset. * Don't let the external control start the stream until a feed is actually requested. Jemma Denson (4

[PATCH v2 4/4] cx24120: Take control of b2c2 streams

Now that b2c2 has an option to allow us to do so, turn off the flexcop streams when we turn off mpeg output whilst tuning. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-fe-tuner.c | 10 ++ drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.c| 29

[PATCH v2 2/4] b2c2: Move stream reset code from flexcop-pci to flexcop

As this bit of code is resetting the flexcop stream and the hardware filter a better place for it is in flexcop-hw-filter.c Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-common.h| 1 + drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-hw-filter.c | 17

[PATCH v2 1/4] b2c2: Add option to skip the first 6 pid filters

the inital 6 and solely use just the additional 32, and enables this option for the SkystarS2 card. Other cards can be added as required if they also have this bug. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-common.h| 1 + drivers/media/common/b2c2

Re: [PATCH 3/4] cx24120: Take control of b2c2 receive stream

Hi Patrick, On 26/05/15 10:05, Patrick Boettcher wrote: Now that b2c2 has an option to allow us to do so, turn off the flexcop receive stream when we turn off mpeg output whilst tuning. Does this not fix (and your '[PATCH 2/4]') the problem of receiving PAT from the previously tuned

Re: DVB-T2 PCIe vs DVB-S2

On 26/05/15 08:53, Ian Campbell wrote: Hello, I'm looking to get a DVB-T2 tuner card to add UK Freeview HD to my mythtv box. Looking at http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T2_PCIe_Cards is seems that many (the majority even) of the cards there are actually DVB-S2. Is this a mistake or is

Re: [PATCH 4/4] b2c2: Always turn off receive stream

On 22/05/15 21:28, Jemma Denson wrote: When letting an external device control the receive stream, it won't know when there's demand for any feeds, so won't be turning off our receive stream. This patch bring back control of turning it off in this sitation. The demod can still delay turning

[PATCH 0/4] SkystarS2 pid filtering fix and stream control.

when it turns off it's output during tuning. I'm not sure it actually needs to turn it's output stream off, and the patches also make it easy to disable this. Jemma Denson (4): b2c2: Add option to skip the first 6 pid filters b2c2: Allow external stream control cx24120: Take control of b2c2

[PATCH 1/4] b2c2: Add option to skip the first 6 pid filters

the inital 6 and solely use just the additional 32, and enables this option for the SkystarS2 card. Other cards can be added as required if they also have this bug. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-common.h| 1 + drivers/media/common/b2c2

[PATCH 2/4] b2c2: Allow external stream control

function. The feature added is to allow passing control of the flexcop receive stream to another device, such as the demod chip. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-common.h| 2 ++ drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-hw-filter.c | 6 -- 2 files

[PATCH 4/4] b2c2: Always turn off receive stream

turn it off temporarily whilst it knows there's no stream, such as whilst tuning. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-hw-filter.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-hw-filter.c b

[PATCH 3/4] cx24120: Take control of b2c2 receive stream

-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-fe-tuner.c | 10 ++ drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.c| 29 +++- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.h| 1 + 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers

[PATCH] b2c2: Mismatch in config ifdefs for SkystarS2

checks. One had a check for just CX24120, the other is checking for both CX24120 and ISL6421. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-fe-tuner.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-fe

Re: [PULL v3] for 4.2: add support for cx24120/Technisat SkyStar S2

On 20/05/15 09:05, Patrick Boettcher wrote: Hi Mauro, This is an updated version (v3) of the pull-request for integrating the cx24120-driver. Jemma (and partially me) addressed all strict-conding-style-issues and fixed several things regarding signal-stats and demod-issues + some code cleaning

[PATCH] cx24120: Assume ucb registers is a counter

The ucblocks register is probably a counter and not a rate; assume it is so and change the calculations as required. Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24120.c | 11 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers

Re: [PULL] For 4.2 (or even 4.1?) add support for cx24120/Technisat SkyStar S2

On 19/05/15 11:57, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: The only thing left now is moving UCB BER over to DVBv5 stats - we haven't got anything close to any specs for this demod so I'm struggling to work out how to handle the counter increment. It's not helped by my signal not being marginal enough

Re: [PATCH 1/8] m88ds3103: do not return error from get_frontend() when not ready

Hi Antti, On 18/05/15 06:08, Antti Palosaari wrote: Do not return error from get_frontend() when status is queried, but device is not ready. dvbv5-zap has habit to call that IOCTL before device is tuned and it also refuses to use DVBv5 statistic after that... In the driver I'm working on I

Re: [PULL] For 4.2 (or even 4.1?) add support for cx24120/Technisat SkyStar S2

Hi Mauro, On 15/05/15 15:24, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Of course. Jemma and me (mainly Jemma) are progressing and might be able to resubmit everything this weekend. Good! Thanks for the good work! Mauro The only thing left now is moving UCB BER over to DVBv5 stats - we haven't got

DVBv5 qos/stats driver implementation

Mauro/Antti, Myself and Patrick are currently in the process of bringing an old out of tree frontend driver into shape for inclusion, and one of the issues raised by Mauro was the requirement for the new DVBv5 stats method. I've noticed there seems to be two different ways of going around

Re: [PULL] For 4.2 (or even 4.1?) add support for cx24120/Technisat SkyStar S2

(Resending to fix reply-all) Hi Mauro, Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I'll let Patrick respond to the first part regards the pull request - I'll just respond to the points you've made about the driver itself. On 27/04/15 21:16, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: + + +/* Write

Re: [PATCH] Add support for TechniSat Skystar S2

On 17/04/15 10:06, Patrick Boettcher wrote: I have my Skystar S2 pointed to 19.2E. That would be great if you could test on that, 28.2E can be a bit conservative. The parts that I consider need testing are FEC and Pilot on DVBS2 - I didn't have that much variety in FEC values, and as far as I

Re: [PATCH] Add support for TechniSat Skystar S2

Oh, I was doing this the wrong way then. I did have some preamble to this but it seems to have been stripped. Anyway, this patch adds support for the Technisat Skystar S2 - this has been tried before but the cx24120 driver was a bit out of shape and it didn't got any further:

[PATCH] Add support for TechniSat Skystar S2

Signed-off-by: Jemma Denson jden...@gmail.com --- drivers/media/common/b2c2/Kconfig|1 + drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-fe-tuner.c | 51 +- drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-misc.c |1 + drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop-reg.h |1 + drivers/media/dvb