Georg Acher wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:11:24PM -0400, Steven Toth wrote: > > >> Anyway, sadly, I had to drop support for the HVR4000 via your patches >> and I'll have to find a way to reimplement support via another mechanism. >> > > Almost a year ago I've used a very early stage of your 24116 driver as the > basis for the S2 tuner of the Reelbox (the current driver can be obtained > from their SVN). > > Since I was already sceptical about the DVB-API "replication" with > multiproto, I used a pragmatic hack: The modulation (8PSK and S2-QPSK) and > the rolloff is encoded in the upper 16 bit of the FEC value (usually 0). The > new S2 FECs are appended after FEC_AUTO. So the API is absolutely backward > compatible, in fact we are using kernel 2.6.11 on the reelbox. > > The only drawback is that the frontend type cannot be changed (still > FE_QPSK) and the S2 capability detection must be done by the string "DVB-S2" > in the tuner name ;-) Not very clean, but we are working in a known > environment... > > Thanks for the feedback, useful to know.
I know other people are doing similar things with the 24116 in commercial CE devices, rather than use multiproto also. They have launched products with success. Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
