diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml index 1af3842509105ea45fd815ad953781d901b03bfe..751c3d0271036544dae44457fdab0f8767830ef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-types.xml @@ -84,7 +84,34 @@ MEDIA_ENT_F_TUNER - Digital TV, analog TV, radio and/or software radio tuner. + Digital TV, analog TV, radio and/or software radio tuner, + with consists on a PLL tuning stage that converts radio + frequency (RF) signal into an Intermediate Frequency (IF). + Modern tuners have internally IF-PLL decoders for audio + and video, but older models have those stages implemented + on separate entities. + + + + MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_VID_DECODER + IF-PLL video decoder. It receives the IF from a PLL + and decodes the analog TV video signal. This is commonly + found on some very old analog tuners, like Philips MK3 + designs. They all contain a tda9887 (or some software + compatible similar chip, like tda9885). Those devices + use a different I2C address than the tuner PLL. + + + + MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_AUD_DECODER + IF-PLL sound decoder. It receives the IF from a PLL + and decodes the analog TV audio signal. This is commonly + found on some very old analog hardware, like Micronas + msp3400, Philips tda9840, tda985x, etc. Those devices + use a different I2C address than the tuner PLL and + should be controlled together with the IF-PLL video + decoder. + diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/media.h b/include/uapi/linux/media.h index 5dbb208e5451ac094eaf86654f63e5fb748a29d4..c9eb42a6c0210fa1f075cc294c70516d18dc17f8 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/media.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/media.h @@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ struct media_device_info { #define MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_VBI (MEDIA_ENT_F_BASE + 32) #define MEDIA_ENT_F_IO_SWRADIO (MEDIA_ENT_F_BASE + 33) +/* + * Analog TV IF-PLL decoders + * + * It is a responsibility of the master/bridge drivers to create links + * for MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_VID_DECODER and MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_AUD_DECODER. + */ +#define MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_VID_DECODER (MEDIA_ENT_F_BASE + 41) +#define MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_AUD_DECODER (MEDIA_ENT_F_BASE + 42) + /* * Don't touch on those. The ranges MEDIA_ENT_F_OLD_BASE and * MEDIA_ENT_F_OLD_SUBDEV_BASE are kept to keep backward compatibility @@ -107,8 +116,12 @@ struct media_device_info { #define MEDIA_ENT_F_LENS (MEDIA_ENT_F_OLD_SUBDEV_BASE + 3) #define MEDIA_ENT_F_ATV_DECODER (MEDIA_ENT_F_OLD_SUBDEV_BASE + 4) /* - * It is a responsibility of the entity drivers to add connectors and links - * for the tuner entities. + * It is a responsibility of the master/bridge drivers to add connectors + * and links for MEDIA_ENT_F_TUNER. Please notice that some old tuners + * may require the usage of separate I2C chips to decode analog TV signals, + * when the master/bridge chipset doesn't have its own TV standard decoder. + * On such cases, the IF-PLL staging is mapped via one or two entities: + * MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_VID_DECODER and/or MEDIA_ENT_F_IF_AUD_DECODER. */ #define MEDIA_ENT_F_TUNER (MEDIA_ENT_F_OLD_SUBDEV_BASE + 5)