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-This README escorted the skystar2-driver rewriting procedure. It describes the
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-state of the new flexcop-driver set and some internals are written down here
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-too.
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-
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-This document hopefully describes things about the flexcop and its
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-device-offsprings. Goal was to write an easy-to-write and easy-to-read set of
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-drivers based on the skystar2.c and other information.
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-
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-Remark: flexcop-pci.c was a copy of skystar2.c, but every line has been
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-touched and rewritten.
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-
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-History & News
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-==============
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- 2005-04-01 - correct USB ISOC transfers (thanks to Vadim Catana)
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-General coding processing
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-=========================
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-We should proceed as follows (as long as no one complains):
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-0) Think before start writing code!
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-1) rewriting the skystar2.c with the help of the flexcop register descriptions
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-and splitting up the files to a pci-bus-part and a flexcop-part.
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-The new driver will be called b2c2-flexcop-pci.ko/b2c2-flexcop-usb.ko for the
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-device-specific part and b2c2-flexcop.ko for the common flexcop-functions.
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-
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-2) Search for errors in the leftover of flexcop-pci.c (compare with pluto2.c
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-and other pci drivers)
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-
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-3) make some beautification (see 'Improvements when rewriting (refactoring) is
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-done')
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-4) Testing the new driver and maybe substitute the skystar2.c with it, to reach
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-a wider tester audience.
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-
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-5) creating an usb-bus-part using the already written flexcop code for the pci
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-card.
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-
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-Idea: create a kernel-object for the flexcop and export all important
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-functions. This option saves kernel-memory, but maybe a lot of functions have
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-to be exported to kernel namespace.
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-Current situation
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-=================
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-0) Done :)
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-1) Done (some minor issues left)
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-2) Done
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-3) Not ready yet, more information is necessary
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-4) next to be done (see the table below)
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-5) USB driver is working (yes, there are some minor issues)
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-What seems to be ready?
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-1) Rewriting
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-1a) i2c is cut off from the flexcop-pci.c and seems to work
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-1b) moved tuner and demod stuff from flexcop-pci.c to flexcop-tuner-fe.c
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-1c) moved lnb and diseqc stuff from flexcop-pci.c to flexcop-tuner-fe.c
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-1e) eeprom (reading MAC address)
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-1d) sram (no dynamic sll size detection (commented out) (using default as JJ told me))
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-1f) misc. register accesses for reading parameters (e.g. resetting, revision)
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-1g) pid/mac filter (flexcop-hw-filter.c)
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-1i) dvb-stuff initialization in flexcop.c (done)
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-1h) dma stuff (now just using the size-irq, instead of all-together, to be done)
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-1j) remove flexcop initialization from flexcop-pci.c completely (done)
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-1l) use a well working dma IRQ method (done, see 'Known bugs and problems and TODO')
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-1k) cleanup flexcop-files (remove unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs, make static from
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-non-static where possible, moved code to proper places)
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-2) Search for errors in the leftover of flexcop-pci.c (partially done)
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-5a) add MAC address reading
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-5c) feeding of ISOC data to the software demux (format of the isochronous data
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-and speed optimization, no real error) (thanks to Vadim Catana)
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-
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-What to do in the near future?
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-(no special order here)
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-5) USB driver
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-5b) optimize isoc-transfer (submitting/killing isoc URBs when transfer is starting)
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-Testing changes
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-O = item is working
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-P = item is partially working
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-X = item is not working
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-N = item does not apply here
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-<empty field> = item need to be examined
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- | PCI | USB
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-item | mt352 | nxt2002 | stv0299 | mt312 | mt352 | nxt2002 | stv0299 | mt312
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--------+-------+---------+---------+-------+-------+---------+---------+-------
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-1a) | O | | | | N | N | N | N
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-1b) | O | | | | | | O |
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-1c) | N | N | | | N | N | O |
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-1d) | O | O
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-1e) | O | O
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-1f) | P
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-1g) | O
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-1h) | P |
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-1i) | O | N
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-1j) | O | N
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-1l) | O | N
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-2) | O | N
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-5a) | N | O
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-5b)* | N |
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-5c) | N | O
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-* - not done yet
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-Known bugs and problems and TODO
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-1g/h/l) when pid filtering is enabled on the pci card
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-DMA usage currently:
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- The DMA is splitted in 2 equal-sized subbuffers. The Flexcop writes to first
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- address and triggers an IRQ when it's full and starts writing to the second
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- address. When the second address is full, the IRQ is triggered again, and
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- the flexcop writes to first address again, and so on.
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- The buffersize of each address is currently 640*188 bytes.
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- Problem is, when using hw-pid-filtering and doing some low-bandwidth
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- operation (like scanning) the buffers won't be filled enough to trigger
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- the IRQ. That's why:
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- When PID filtering is activated, the timer IRQ is used. Every 1.97 ms the IRQ
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- is triggered. Is the current write address of DMA1 different to the one
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- during the last IRQ, then the data is passed to the demuxer.
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- There is an additional DMA-IRQ-method: packet count IRQ. This isn't
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- implemented correctly yet.
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- The solution is to disable HW PID filtering, but I don't know how the DVB
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- API software demux behaves on slow systems with 45MBit/s TS.
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-
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-Solved bugs :)
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---------------
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-1g) pid-filtering (somehow pid index 4 and 5 (EMM_PID and ECM_PID) aren't
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-working)
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-SOLUTION: also index 0 was affected, because net_translation is done for
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-these indexes by default
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-5b) isochronous transfer does only work in the first attempt (for the Sky2PC
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-USB, Air2PC is working) SOLUTION: the flexcop was going asleep and never really
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-woke up again (don't know if this need fixes, see
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-flexcop-fe-tuner.c:flexcop_sleep)
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-NEWS: when the driver is loaded and unloaded and loaded again (w/o doing
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-anything in the while the driver is loaded the first time), no transfers take
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-place anymore.
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-Improvements when rewriting (refactoring) is done
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-=================================================
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-- split sleeping of the flexcop (misc_204.ACPI3_sig = 1;) from lnb_control
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- (enable sleeping for other demods than dvb-s)
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-- add support for CableStar (stv0297 Microtune 203x/ALPS) (almost done, incompatibilities with the Nexus-CA)
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-
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-Debugging
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----------
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-- add verbose debugging to skystar2.c (dump the reg_dw_data) and compare it
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- with this flexcop, this is important, because i2c is now using the
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- flexcop_ibi_value union from flexcop-reg.h (do you have a better idea for
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- that, please tell us so).
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-Everything which is identical in the following table, can be put into a common
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-flexcop-module.
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- PCI USB
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-Different:
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-Register access: accessing IO memory USB control message
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-I2C bus: I2C bus of the FC USB control message
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-Data transfer: DMA isochronous transfer
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-EEPROM transfer: through i2c bus not clear yet
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-Identical:
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-Streaming: accessing registers
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-PID Filtering: accessing registers
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-Sram destinations: accessing registers
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-Tuner/Demod: I2C bus
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-DVB-stuff: can be written for common use
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-Acknowledgements (just for the rewriting part)
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-================
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-Bjarne Steinsbo thought a lot in the first place of the pci part for this code
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-sharing idea.
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-Andreas Oberritter for providing a recent PCI initialization template
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-(pluto2.c).
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-Boleslaw Ciesielski for pointing out a problem with firmware loader.
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-Vadim Catana for correcting the USB transfer.
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-comments, critics and ideas to linux-dvb@linuxtv.org.
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Linus Torvalds