From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.kapsi.fi ([217.30.184.167]:55257 "EHLO mail.kapsi.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754562Ab2JQKCG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:02:06 -0400 Message-ID: <507E8205.2050705@iki.fi> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:01:41 +0300 From: Antti Palosaari MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Schinagl CC: linux-media Subject: Re: AF9035 firmware repository References: <507E7872.8030300@schinagl.nl> In-Reply-To: <507E7872.8030300@schinagl.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Oliver On 10/17/2012 12:20 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > Hey antti, list, > > whilst trying to help some Asus U3100+ users with the recent patches I > ran into an issue. For some strange reason his chip_id was 0xff. I'd > hope this is somehow supplied by the firmware. I think I had the exact > same issue until I used Antti's latest firmware for the AF9035. > > Having said that, I know antti currently hosts the latest firmware for > the af9035, but there seem to be several out in the wild and people > googling for the firmware tend to find the really old one. Yes, it is the firmware. AF9035/AF9033 firmware is aware of used tuner and there is some logic inside firmware for each tuner, like calculating signal strength and handling of tuner I2C bus. Same applies for AF9015/AF9013 too where this has caused some notable problems - I have asked few times if someone could reverse and fix that fw to behave better. > I'm pretty certain that Afa-tech, IT-tech etc won't allow the firmware > to live in the kernel, or simply refuse to answer shuch a plead? They > could be persuaded by the maintainer to at least have it live in > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git or > if that fails, have it pulled by Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware? > (Btw, why is it get_dvb_firmware? I didn't find a generic script or > other devices that did the same). Feel free to try. I tried it ages back in 2009 but failed. Someone should make some study of these firmwares and list what are differences, supported tuners etc. That was discussed at the time af9035 was merged to the Kernel... As rule of thumb test first newest firmware. Currently there is no 100% automated script to dump those firmwares from the binary. AF9035 driver seems to contain multiple firmwares. Maybe making script that finds and dumps all firmwares found from binary could be handy. > I'll update the af9035 wikipage to link to antti's firmware for now. Good! regards Antti -- http://palosaari.fi/