[linux-dvb] mxl5005s tuner analog support

[Andy Walls]

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 16:48 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I working on the analog support for the Pinnacle Ultimate 880e
> support, and that device includes an mxl5005s tuner.
> 
> I went to do the normal changes to em28xx to support another tuner,
> which prompted me to wonder:
> 
> Is the analog support known to to work in Linux for this tuner for any
> other device?
> 
> The reason I ask is because I hit an oops and when I looked at the
> source I found some suspicious things:
> 
> * No entry in tuner.h
> * No attach command in tuner-core.c
> * No definition of set_analog_params() callback in mxl5005s.c

The mxl5005s support was added to the v4l-dvb repo by Steven Toth for
the HVR-1600 which uses it exclusively for ATSC (QAM and 8-VSB).

The source of Steve's driver is from RealTek.  More comments on origin
can be found in the mxl5005s.[ch] files.

There is some history in the list archives between Steve and Manu (and
me indirectly) on the use of the mxl500x source module.


> I wonder if perhaps the driver was ported from some other source and
> nobody ever got around to getting the analog support working?  If
> that's the case then that is fine (I'll make it work), but I want to
> know if I am just missing something obvious here....

I'd like to get the driver working a little better myself.  Steve said
the QAM suffers a 3 dB hit compared to Manu's version (IIRC).  I'd like
a decent signal strength readout.   If I had a data sheet from MaxLinear
maybe I could do something.  It still looks like details of external
tracking filter hardware need to be known and tested for each particular
board though.

Regards,
Andy


> Devin
>