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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb132
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt79
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt69
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/video.txt1
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)