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diff --git a/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst b/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst index 1430f0b7e615..de9a228aca8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst @@ -80,8 +80,141 @@ Digital TV Frontend The Digital TV Frontend kABI defines a driver-internal interface for registering low-level, hardware specific driver to a hardware independent frontend layer. It is only of interest for Digital TV device driver writers. -The header file for this API is named dvb_frontend.h and located in -drivers/media/dvb-core. +The header file for this API is named ``dvb_frontend.h`` and located in +``drivers/media/dvb-core``. + +Demodulator driver +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The demodulator driver is responsible to talk with the decoding part of the +hardware. Such driver should implement :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops`, with +tells what type of digital TV standards are supported, and points to a +series of functions that allow the DVB core to command the hardware via +the code under ``drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c``. + +A typical example of such struct in a driver ``foo`` is:: + + static struct dvb_frontend_ops foo_ops = { + .delsys = { SYS_DVBT, SYS_DVBT2, SYS_DVBC_ANNEX_A }, + .info = { + .name = "foo DVB-T/T2/C driver", + .caps = FE_CAN_FEC_1_2 | + FE_CAN_FEC_2_3 | + FE_CAN_FEC_3_4 | + FE_CAN_FEC_5_6 | + FE_CAN_FEC_7_8 | + FE_CAN_FEC_AUTO | + FE_CAN_QPSK | + FE_CAN_QAM_16 | + FE_CAN_QAM_32 | + FE_CAN_QAM_64 | + FE_CAN_QAM_128 | + FE_CAN_QAM_256 | + FE_CAN_QAM_AUTO | + FE_CAN_TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO | + FE_CAN_GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO | + FE_CAN_HIERARCHY_AUTO | + FE_CAN_MUTE_TS | + FE_CAN_2G_MODULATION, + .frequency_min = 42000000, /* Hz */ + .frequency_max = 1002000000, /* Hz */ + .symbol_rate_min = 870000, + .symbol_rate_max = 11700000 + }, + .init = foo_init, + .sleep = foo_sleep, + .release = foo_release, + .set_frontend = foo_set_frontend, + .get_frontend = foo_get_frontend, + .read_status = foo_get_status_and_stats, + .tune = foo_tune, + .i2c_gate_ctrl = foo_i2c_gate_ctrl, + .get_frontend_algo = foo_get_algo, + }; + +A typical example of such struct in a driver ``bar`` meant to be used on +Satellite TV reception is:: + + static const struct dvb_frontend_ops bar_ops = { + .delsys = { SYS_DVBS, SYS_DVBS2 }, + .info = { + .name = "Bar DVB-S/S2 demodulator", + .frequency_min = 500000, /* KHz */ + .frequency_max = 2500000, /* KHz */ + .frequency_stepsize = 0, + .symbol_rate_min = 1000000, + .symbol_rate_max = 45000000, + .symbol_rate_tolerance = 500, + .caps = FE_CAN_INVERSION_AUTO | + FE_CAN_FEC_AUTO | + FE_CAN_QPSK, + }, + .init = bar_init, + .sleep = bar_sleep, + .release = bar_release, + .set_frontend = bar_set_frontend, + .get_frontend = bar_get_frontend, + .read_status = bar_get_status_and_stats, + .i2c_gate_ctrl = bar_i2c_gate_ctrl, + .get_frontend_algo = bar_get_algo, + .tune = bar_tune, + + /* Satellite-specific */ + .diseqc_send_master_cmd = bar_send_diseqc_msg, + .diseqc_send_burst = bar_send_burst, + .set_tone = bar_set_tone, + .set_voltage = bar_set_voltage, + }; + +.. note:: + + #) For satellite digital TV standards (DVB-S, DVB-S2, ISDB-S), the + frequencies are specified in kHz, while, for terrestrial and cable + standards, they're specified in Hz. Due to that, if the same frontend + supports both types, you'll need to have two separate + :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops` structures, one for each standard. + #) The ``.i2c_gate_ctrl`` field is present only when the hardware has + allows controlling an I2C gate (either directly of via some GPIO pin), + in order to remove the tuner from the I2C bus after a channel is + tuned. + #) All new drivers should implement the + :ref:`DVBv5 statistics <dvbv5_stats>` via ``.read_status``. + Yet, there are a number of callbacks meant to get statistics for + signal strength, S/N and UCB. Those are there to provide backward + compatibility with legacy applications that don't support the DVBv5 + API. Implementing those callbacks are optional. Those callbacks may be + removed in the future, after we have all existing drivers supporting + DVBv5 stats. + #) Other callbacks are required for satellite TV standards, in order to + control LNBf and DiSEqC: ``.diseqc_send_master_cmd``, + ``.diseqc_send_burst``, ``.set_tone``, ``.set_voltage``. + +.. |delta| unicode:: U+00394 + +The ``drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c`` has a kernel thread with is +responsible for tuning the device. It supports multiple algoritms to +detect a channel, as defined at enum :c:func:`dvbfe_algo`. + +The algorithm to be used is obtained via ``.get_frontend_algo``. If the driver +doesn't fill its field at struct :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops`, it will default to +``DVBFE_ALGO_SW``, meaning that the dvb-core will do a zigzag when tuning, +e. g. it will try first to use the specified center frequency ``f``, +then, it will do ``f`` + |delta|, ``f`` - |delta|, ``f`` + 2 x |delta|, +``f`` - 2 x |delta| and so on. + +If the hardware has internally a some sort of zigzag algorithm, you should +define a ``.get_frontend_algo`` function that would return ``DVBFE_ALGO_HW``. + +.. note:: + + The core frontend support also supports + a third type (``DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM``), in order to allow the driver to + define its own hardware-assisted algorithm. Very few hardware need to + use it nowadays. Using ``DVBFE_ALGO_CUSTOM`` require to provide other + function callbacks at struct :c:type:`dvb_frontend_ops`. + +Attaching frontend driver to the bridge driver +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Before using the Digital TV frontend core, the bridge driver should attach the frontend demod, tuner and SEC devices and call @@ -99,6 +232,8 @@ part of their handler for :c:type:`device_driver`.\ ``resume()``. A few other optional functions are provided to handle some special cases. +.. _dvbv5_stats: + Digital TV Frontend statistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |