On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:54 PM, BOUWSMA Barry <freebeer.bouwsma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > >> Adding support to the API is only part of the job. The question is which >> currently available receiver hardware is supporting DVB-T2 and where can we > > Apparently the following were used at a recent demo in Amsterdam: > Tuner chip TDA18211HN, prototype demodulator TDA10055, both from > NXP. > > > >> get a driver for this hardware? > > Won't it be that some poor sucker signs away their soul for NDA > access to the specifics of the chips, or is it possible that > the chip manufacturer might deliver already-written drivers > (though looking at the existing TDAxxxxx frontend code, the > former seems most likely, and I don't know how well this one > manufacturer is generally with linux support) ? > > Support for the tuner chip above seems to have been attempted > about a year ago. The TDA18211HN is fully supported by the tda18271 module. The driver will not need anything specific to tune into new broadcast standards -- just the filters need to be set up properly. All of the differences in setup are exposed by the driver in the attach-time configuration structure, so the driver would not need any modification to work properly with new demodulator hardware, other than some tweaking in the attach-time configuration structure overrides. (without the overrides, the driver will use default behavior, which is appropriate for some but not all designs). I do not know of anybody working on a driver for the tda10055. Regards, Mike _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
