Re: What ever happened to standardizing signal level?

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>]

Markus Rechberger wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> wrote:
>> Markus Rechberger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A little bit more "ontopic", did anyone get around to read the
>>> signallevel of the tda18721?
>>> I wonder the register does not return any signallevel as indicated in
>>> the specifications.
>>>
>>> Markus
>> There is a "power level" value that can be read from the tda18271 -- I had a
>> patch that enabled reading of this value, for testing purposes, but it
>> wasn't as useful as I had hoped, so I never bothered to merge it.
>>
>> If you'd like to play with it, I pushed up some code last year:
>>
>> http://kernellabs.com/hg/~mkrufky/tda18271-pl/rev/4373874cff29
>>
>> Let me know how this works for you, or if you choose to change it.  I If you
>> find it valuable, we can merge it in somehow.
>>
> 
> hmm.. I somewhat tried the same but the register kept flipping back
> and the powerlevel register returned 0.
> 
> Markus

...I think it only works on the c2 rev silicon.  Not sure about that, 
though.

-Mike