[linux-dvb] STB6100, STB0899 programming information?

[Wolfgang Wegner]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:26:06AM +0200, thomas schorpp wrote:
> Jason Filos wrote:
> >It CAN be, infact STB0899 has 242 registers ...
> 
> registers or adress space? are you sure?

AFAIR it has around 150 registers, many of them 16 or 32 Bit in size.

> >But there is already a DVB driver for the STB0899, how come there is no
> >information available to build the DVBS2, I dont really understand what the
> >problem is here.
> 
> hardware specific adaption, it seems.

In DVB-S mode, only few of the registers are used. It is basically like
in older STV0299, you set the registers and wait until the demod is
locked. In DVB-S2 mode, you have to build several loops in software,
together with the bigger amount of registers (and much more complicated
addressing scheme) it makes things a bit less easy.

Regards,
Wolfgang