Re: af9015: tuner id:179 not supported, please report!

[Jan Sundman <jan.sundman@aland.net>]

Hi, 

Thanks for the info, I will have a look and see if it is worth the
trouble. 

Br,

// Jan

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:03 -0500, Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Devin Heitmueller
> <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bert Massop <bert.massop@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> The datasheet for the TDA18218 can be obtained from NXP:
> >> http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/TDA18218HN.pdf
> >>
> >> That's all the information I have at the moment, maybe Mike has some
> >> other information (like the Application Note mentioned in the
> >> datasheet, that claims to contain information on writing drivers, but
> >> cannot be found anywhere).
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Bert
> >
> > Took a quick look at that datasheet.  I would guess between that
> > datasheet and a usbsnoop, there is probably enough there to write a
> > driver that basically works for your particular hardware if you know
> > what you are doing.  The register map is abbreviated, but probably
> > good enough...
> >
> > Devin
> 
> The datasheet is missing too much important information needed to
> write a fully featured driver for the part, and I wouldn't recommend
> using a usbsnoop for this type of tuner, but be my guest and prove me
> wrong.
> 
> You might be able to get it working, but you'll end up with tons of
> binary blobs hardcoded for each frequency, unless you use a
> programming guide.  Unfortunately, I don't have one that I can share
> :-/
> 
> I think you would be much better off purchasing supported hardware, instead.
> 
> Good luck, though...
> 
> -Mike
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