[linux-dvb] Re: [RFC] Frontend API

[Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>]

Holger Waechtler wrote:


>> I don't know a lot about diseq, I just use a diseq to switch between
>> hotbird and astra, but I don't know for now the low-level things.
> 
> (I get the feeling that most people on this list have this problem;)
> You can get the Spec from http://www.eutelsat.org/satellites/4_4_5.html.
> If somebody is interested I may write a little posting next days about 
> how this is implemented by hardware in DVB cards, adapters and STB's.

would be very interesting!


> We should not define this since most frontend specs don't provide the 
> necessary information to implement this.
> (This is the situation we have now: for shure it's a fine feature of an 
> API to deliver absolute SNR values measured in dBm, but what sense does 
> it makes if there is almost no implementaion of this API?)

you're right, in this situation. Why hardware producers are so lame?


bye!
as








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