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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb | 132 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 79 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt | 69 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/video.txt | 1 |
5 files changed, 148 insertions, 149 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb index c7ed01b9f8f..ac0797ea646 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb +++ b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb @@ -13,14 +13,17 @@ different way: With the help of a dvb-usb-framework. The framework provides generic functions (mostly kernel API calls), such as: - Transport Stream URB handling in conjunction with dvb-demux-feed-control - (bulk and isoc (TODO) are supported) + (bulk and isoc are supported) - registering the device for the DVB-API - registering an I2C-adapter if applicable - remote-control/input-device handling - firmware requesting and loading (currently just for the Cypress USB - controller) + controllers) - other functions/methods which can be shared by several drivers (such as functions for bulk-control-commands) +- TODO: a I2C-chunker. It creates device-specific chunks of register-accesses + depending on length of a register and the number of values that can be + multi-written and multi-read. The source code of the particular DVB USB devices does just the communication with the device via the bus. The connection between the DVB-API-functionality @@ -36,93 +39,18 @@ the dvb-usb-lib. TODO: dynamic enabling and disabling of the pid-filter in regard to number of feeds requested. -Supported devices USB1.1 +Supported devices ======================== -Produced and reselled by Twinhan: ---------------------------------- -- TwinhanDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041) - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_3.asp +See the LinuxTV DVB Wiki at www.linuxtv.org for a complete list of +cards/drivers/firmwares: -- TwinhanDTV Magic Box (VP7041e) - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_4.asp - -- HAMA DVB-T USB device - http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*110620/action*2598 - -- CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) (2) - http://www.2cts.tv/ctsportable/ - -- Unknown USB DVB-T device with vendor ID Hyper-Paltek - - -Produced and reselled by KWorld: --------------------------------- -- KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV DVB-T USB - http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/product/DVBT-USB/DVBT-USB.html - -- JetWay DTV DVB-T USB - http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-USB/dtv-usb.htm - -- ADSTech Instant TV DVB-T USB - http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-333/intro/PTV-333_intro.asp?pid=PTV-333 - - -Others: -------- -- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner) - http://82.161.246.249/products-tvbox.html - -- Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB (2) - http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm - -- Grandtec USB DVB-T - http://www.grand.com.tw/ - -- AVerMedia AverTV DVBT USB - http://www.avermedia.com/ - -- DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public) - - -Supported devices USB2.0-only -============================= -- Twinhan MagicBox II - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_7.asp - -- TwinhanDTV Alpha - http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_8.asp - -- DigitalNow TinyUSB 2 DVB-t Receiver - http://www.digitalnow.com.au/DigitalNow%20tinyUSB2%20Specifications.html - -- Hanftek UMT-010 - http://www.globalsources.com/si/6008819757082/ProductDetail/Digital-TV/product_id-100046529 - - -Supported devices USB2.0 and USB1.1 -============================= -- Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA/Yuan DVB-T mobile USB2.0 - http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T - http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/products/vdo_ub300.html - http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*114663/action*2563 - http://www.anubisline.com/english/articlec.asp?id=50502&catid=002 - -- Artec T1 USB TVBOX (FX2) (2) - -- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 - http://www.hauppauge.com/ - -- KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 (DiB3000M-B) - -- DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public) - -- AVerMedia AverTV A800 DVB-T USB2.0 - -1) It is working almost - work-in-progress. -2) No test reports received yet. +http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB 0. History & News: + 2005-06-30 - added support for WideView WT-220U (Thanks to Steve Chang) + 2005-05-30 - added basic isochronous support to the dvb-usb-framework + added support for Conexant Hybrid reference design and Nebula DigiTV USB 2005-04-17 - all dibusb devices ported to make use of the dvb-usb-framework 2005-04-02 - re-enabled and improved remote control code. 2005-03-31 - ported the Yakumo/Hama/Typhoon DVB-T USB2.0 device to dvb-usb. @@ -137,7 +65,7 @@ Supported devices USB2.0 and USB1.1 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is gone for USB1.1 devices 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010 - - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 + - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predecessors of the HanfTek UMT-010 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich. @@ -187,25 +115,13 @@ Supported devices USB2.0 and USB1.1 1. How to use? 1.1. Firmware -Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to start working. - -for USB1.1 (AN2135) you need: dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw -for USB2.0 HanfTek: dvb-usb-umt-010-02.fw -for USB2.0 DiBcom: dvb-usb-dibusb-6.0.0.8.fw -for USB2.0 AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB2: dvb-usb-avertv-a800-01.fw -for USB2.0 TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBox II: dvb-usb-vp7045-01.fw - -The files can be found on http://www.linuxtv.org/download/firmware/ . +Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to the device before start +working. -We do not have the permission (yet) to publish the following firmware-files. -You'll need to extract them from the windows drivers. +Have a look at the Wikipage for the DVB-USB-drivers to find out, which firmware +you need for your device: -You should be able to use "get_dvb_firmware dvb-usb" to get the firmware: - -for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices): dvb-usb-dibusb-an2235-01.fw -for USB2.0 Hauppauge: dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2-01.fw -for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0: dvb-usb-adstech-usb2-01.fw -for USB2.0 Yakumo/Typhoon/Hama: dvb-usb-dtt200u-01.fw +http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB 1.2. Compiling @@ -289,6 +205,9 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome. Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for providing root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices. + Allan Third and Michael Hutchinson for their help to write the Nebula + digitv-driver. + Glen Harris for bringing up, that there is a new dibusb-device and Jiun-Kuei Jung from AVerMedia who kindly provided a special firmware to get the device up and running in Linux. @@ -296,7 +215,12 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome. Jennifer Chen, Jeff and Jack from Twinhan for kindly supporting by writing the vp7045-driver. - Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me + Steve Chang from WideView for providing information for new devices and + firmware files. + + Michael Paxton for submitting remote control keymaps. + + Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me. Peter Schildmann >peter.schildmann-nospam-at-web.de< for his user-level firmware loader, which saves a lot of time @@ -305,4 +229,4 @@ Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome. Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese. André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with - hardware and listening to my problems very patient. + hardware and listening to my problems very patiently. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index 3a326079475..e6b8d05bc08 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -1,66 +1,55 @@ -How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working -========================================================= +How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working +========================================================================================= -This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and -require the bttv driver. +1) General information +====================== -Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module -options below for the DST card. +This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface. +The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means +to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. -1) General informations -======================= +2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12 +========================================= -These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access -the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. +Enable the following options: -Because of this, you need to enable "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" - => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" - -Furthermore you need to enable + => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" -2) Loading Modules -================== +3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches +=============================================== In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and -i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. -The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and -TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. +i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver, +which is called the backend. +The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110), +TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend. +For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. -3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV --------------------------- +3a) The manual approach +----------------------- - $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) +Loading modules: +modprobe bttv +modprobe dvb-bt8xx +Unloading modules: +modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx +modprobe -r bttv -3b) TwinHan and Clones +3b) The automatic approach -------------------------- - $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - $ modprobe dst - -The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, -which is necessary for TwinHan cards. - -If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks -your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the -mailing list. - -The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters: +If not already done by installation, place a line either in +/etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text: +alias char-major-81 bttv -a. verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level. -b. debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging. -c. dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20: -- A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. -- A value of 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. +Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text: +dvb-bt8xx -The autodetected values are determined by the "response string" -of the card, which you can see in your logs: -e.g.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI] +Reboot your system and have fun! -- Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1d227ee3792..12dde43fe65 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -119,3 +119,19 @@ Why: Match the other drivers' name for the same function, duplicate names will be available until removal of old names. Who: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> +--------------------------- + +What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) +When: November 2005 +Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c +Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a + normal hotpluggable bus, and with it using the default kernel + infrastructure (hotplug, driver core, sysfs) keeping the PCMCIA + control ioctl needed by cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs is + unnecessary, and makes further cleanups and integration of the + PCMCIA subsystem into the Linux kernel device driver model more + difficult. The features provided by cardmgr and cardctl are either + handled by the kernel itself now or are available in the new + pcmciautils package available at + http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ +Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f847501e50b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +USERSPACE VERBS ACCESS + + The ib_uverbs module, built by enabling CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_VERBS, + enables direct userspace access to IB hardware via "verbs," as + described in chapter 11 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification. + + To use the verbs, the libibverbs library, available from + <http://openib.org/>, is required. libibverbs contains a + device-independent API for using the ib_uverbs interface. + libibverbs also requires appropriate device-dependent kernel and + userspace driver for your InfiniBand hardware. For example, to use + a Mellanox HCA, you will need the ib_mthca kernel module and the + libmthca userspace driver be installed. + +User-kernel communication + + Userspace communicates with the kernel for slow path, resource + management operations via the /dev/infiniband/uverbsN character + devices. Fast path operations are typically performed by writing + directly to hardware registers mmap()ed into userspace, with no + system call or context switch into the kernel. + + Commands are sent to the kernel via write()s on these device files. + The ABI is defined in drivers/infiniband/include/ib_user_verbs.h. + The structs for commands that require a response from the kernel + contain a 64-bit field used to pass a pointer to an output buffer. + Status is returned to userspace as the return value of the write() + system call. + +Resource management + + Since creation and destruction of all IB resources is done by + commands passed through a file descriptor, the kernel can keep track + of which resources are attached to a given userspace context. The + ib_uverbs module maintains idr tables that are used to translate + between kernel pointers and opaque userspace handles, so that kernel + pointers are never exposed to userspace and userspace cannot trick + the kernel into following a bogus pointer. + + This also allows the kernel to clean up when a process exits and + prevent one process from touching another process's resources. + +Memory pinning + + Direct userspace I/O requires that memory regions that are potential + I/O targets be kept resident at the same physical address. The + ib_uverbs module manages pinning and unpinning memory regions via + get_user_pages() and put_page() calls. It also accounts for the + amount of memory pinned in the process's locked_vm, and checks that + unprivileged processes do not exceed their RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit. + + Pages that are pinned multiple times are counted each time they are + pinned, so the value of locked_vm may be an overestimate of the + number of pages pinned by a process. + +/dev files + + To create the appropriate character device files automatically with + udev, a rule like + + KERNEL="uverbs*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + + can be used. This will create device nodes named + + /dev/infiniband/uverbs0 + + and so on. Since the InfiniBand userspace verbs should be safe for + use by non-privileged processes, it may be useful to add an + appropriate MODE or GROUP to the udev rule. diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt index 881a37e3eeb..7a4a5036d12 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/video.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ IBM Thinkpad X40 Type 2371-7JG s3_bios,s3_mode (4) Medion MD4220 ??? (*) Samsung P35 vbetool needed (6) Sharp PC-AR10 (ATI rage) none (1) +Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K s3_bios (2) Sony Vaio PCG-F403 ??? (*) Sony Vaio PCG-N505SN ??? (*) Sony Vaio vgn-s260 X or boot-radeon can init it (5) |