1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
6 Author: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
11 This driver is intended for the "Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB 2.0", which
12 is a USB 2.0 hosted TV Tuner. This driver is a work in progress.
13 Its history started with the reverse-engineering effort by Björn
14 Danielsson <pvrusb2@dax.nu> whose web page can be found here:
15 http://pvrusb2.dax.nu/
17 From there Aurelien Alleaume <slts@free.fr> began an effort to
18 create a video4linux compatible driver. I began with Aurelien's
19 last known snapshot and evolved the driver to the state it is in
22 More information on this driver can be found at:
23 http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html
26 This driver has a strong separation of layers. They are very
29 1. Low level wire-protocol implementation with the device.
31 2. I2C adaptor implementation and corresponding I2C client drivers
32 implemented elsewhere in V4L.
34 3. High level hardware driver implementation which coordinates all
35 activities that ensure correct operation of the device.
37 4. A "context" layer which manages instancing of driver, setup,
38 tear-down, arbitration, and interaction with high level
39 interfaces appropriately as devices are hotplugged in the
42 5. High level interfaces which glue the driver to various published
43 Linux APIs (V4L, sysfs, maybe DVB in the future).
45 The most important shearing layer is between the top 2 layers. A
46 lot of work went into the driver to ensure that any kind of
47 conceivable API can be laid on top of the core driver. (Yes, the
48 driver internally leverages V4L to do its work but that really has
49 nothing to do with the API published by the driver to the outside
50 world.) The architecture allows for different APIs to
51 simultaneously access the driver. I have a strong sense of fairness
52 about APIs and also feel that it is a good design principle to keep
53 implementation and interface isolated from each other. Thus while
54 right now the V4L high level interface is the most complete, the
55 sysfs high level interface will work equally well for similar
56 functions, and there's no reason I see right now why it shouldn't be
57 possible to produce a DVB high level interface that can sit right
63 To build these modules essentially amounts to just running "Make",
64 but you need the kernel source tree nearby and you will likely also
65 want to set a few controlling environment variables first in order
66 to link things up with that source tree. Please see the Makefile
67 here for comments that explain how to do that.
69 Source file list / functional overview
70 --------------------------------------
72 (Note: The term "module" used below generally refers to loosely
73 defined functional units within the pvrusb2 driver and bears no
74 relation to the Linux kernel's concept of a loadable module.)
76 pvrusb2-audio.[ch] - This is glue logic that resides between this
77 driver and the msp3400.ko I2C client driver (which is found
80 pvrusb2-context.[ch] - This module implements the context for an
81 instance of the driver. Everything else eventually ties back to
82 or is otherwise instanced within the data structures implemented
83 here. Hotplugging is ultimately coordinated here. All high level
84 interfaces tie into the driver through this module. This module
85 helps arbitrate each interface's access to the actual driver core,
86 and is designed to allow concurrent access through multiple
87 instances of multiple interfaces (thus you can for example change
88 the tuner's frequency through sysfs while simultaneously streaming
89 video through V4L out to an instance of mplayer).
91 pvrusb2-debug.h - This header defines a printk() wrapper and a mask
92 of debugging bit definitions for the various kinds of debug
93 messages that can be enabled within the driver.
95 pvrusb2-debugifc.[ch] - This module implements a crude command line
96 oriented debug interface into the driver. Aside from being part
97 of the process for implementing manual firmware extraction (see
98 the pvrusb2 web site mentioned earlier), probably I'm the only one
99 who has ever used this. It is mainly a debugging aid.
101 pvrusb2-eeprom.[ch] - This is glue logic that resides between this
102 driver the tveeprom.ko module, which is itself implemented
105 pvrusb2-encoder.[ch] - This module implements all protocol needed to
106 interact with the Conexant mpeg2 encoder chip within the pvrusb2
107 device. It is a crude echo of corresponding logic in ivtv,
108 however the design goals (strict isolation) and physical layer
109 (proxy through USB instead of PCI) are enough different that this
110 implementation had to be completely different.
112 pvrusb2-hdw-internal.h - This header defines the core data structure
113 in the driver used to track ALL internal state related to control
114 of the hardware. Nobody outside of the core hardware-handling
115 modules should have any business using this header. All external
116 access to the driver should be through one of the high level
117 interfaces (e.g. V4L, sysfs, etc), and in fact even those high
118 level interfaces are restricted to the API defined in
119 pvrusb2-hdw.h and NOT this header.
121 pvrusb2-hdw.h - This header defines the full internal API for
122 controlling the hardware. High level interfaces (e.g. V4L, sysfs)
123 will work through here.
125 pvrusb2-hdw.c - This module implements all the various bits of logic
126 that handle overall control of a specific pvrusb2 device.
127 (Policy, instantiation, and arbitration of pvrusb2 devices fall
128 within the jurisdiction of pvrusb-context not here).
130 pvrusb2-i2c-chips-\*.c - These modules implement the glue logic to
131 tie together and configure various I2C modules as they attach to
132 the I2C bus. There are two versions of this file. The "v4l2"
133 version is intended to be used in-tree alongside V4L, where we
134 implement just the logic that makes sense for a pure V4L
135 environment. The "all" version is intended for use outside of
136 V4L, where we might encounter other possibly "challenging" modules
137 from ivtv or older kernel snapshots (or even the support modules
138 in the standalone snapshot).
140 pvrusb2-i2c-cmd-v4l1.[ch] - This module implements generic V4L1
141 compatible commands to the I2C modules. It is here where state
142 changes inside the pvrusb2 driver are translated into V4L1
143 commands that are in turn send to the various I2C modules.
145 pvrusb2-i2c-cmd-v4l2.[ch] - This module implements generic V4L2
146 compatible commands to the I2C modules. It is here where state
147 changes inside the pvrusb2 driver are translated into V4L2
148 commands that are in turn send to the various I2C modules.
150 pvrusb2-i2c-core.[ch] - This module provides an implementation of a
151 kernel-friendly I2C adaptor driver, through which other external
152 I2C client drivers (e.g. msp3400, tuner, lirc) may connect and
153 operate corresponding chips within the pvrusb2 device. It is
154 through here that other V4L modules can reach into this driver to
155 operate specific pieces (and those modules are in turn driven by
156 glue logic which is coordinated by pvrusb2-hdw, doled out by
157 pvrusb2-context, and then ultimately made available to users
158 through one of the high level interfaces).
160 pvrusb2-io.[ch] - This module implements a very low level ring of
161 transfer buffers, required in order to stream data from the
162 device. This module is *very* low level. It only operates the
163 buffers and makes no attempt to define any policy or mechanism for
164 how such buffers might be used.
166 pvrusb2-ioread.[ch] - This module layers on top of pvrusb2-io.[ch]
167 to provide a streaming API usable by a read() system call style of
168 I/O. Right now this is the only layer on top of pvrusb2-io.[ch],
169 however the underlying architecture here was intended to allow for
170 other styles of I/O to be implemented with additional modules, like
171 mmap()'ed buffers or something even more exotic.
173 pvrusb2-main.c - This is the top level of the driver. Module level
174 and USB core entry points are here. This is our "main".
176 pvrusb2-sysfs.[ch] - This is the high level interface which ties the
177 pvrusb2 driver into sysfs. Through this interface you can do
178 everything with the driver except actually stream data.
180 pvrusb2-tuner.[ch] - This is glue logic that resides between this
181 driver and the tuner.ko I2C client driver (which is found
184 pvrusb2-util.h - This header defines some common macros used
185 throughout the driver. These macros are not really specific to
186 the driver, but they had to go somewhere.
188 pvrusb2-v4l2.[ch] - This is the high level interface which ties the
189 pvrusb2 driver into video4linux. It is through here that V4L
190 applications can open and operate the driver in the usual V4L
191 ways. Note that **ALL** V4L functionality is published only
192 through here and nowhere else.
194 pvrusb2-video-\*.[ch] - This is glue logic that resides between this
195 driver and the saa711x.ko I2C client driver (which is found
196 elsewhere in V4L). Note that saa711x.ko used to be known as
197 saa7115.ko in ivtv. There are two versions of this; one is
198 selected depending on the particular saa711[5x].ko that is found.
200 pvrusb2.h - This header contains compile time tunable parameters
201 (and at the moment the driver has very little that needs to be