This is a new implementation for video pipeline control within the
pvrusb2 driver. Actual start/stop of the pipeline is moved to the
driver's kernel thread. Pipeline stages are controlled autonomously
based on surrounding pipeline or application control state. Kernel
thread management is also cleaned up and moved into the internal
control structure of the driver, solving a set up / tear down race
along the way. Better failure recovery is implemented with this new
control strategy. Also with this change comes better control of the
cx23416 encoder, building on additional information learned about the
peculiarities of controlling this part (this information was the
original trigger for this rework). With this change, overall encoder
stability should be considerably improved. Yes, this is a large
change for this driver, but due to the nature of the feature being
worked on, the changes are fairly pervasive and would be difficult to
break into smaller pieces with any semblence of step-wise stability.
Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
The pvrusb2 driver already has a method for extracting the FX2's
program memory back out to a user application; this ability is used to
facilitate manual firmware extraction as per the procedure documented
on the pvrusb2 web site. This change follows that pattern and
implements a corresponding method to grab the binary contents of the
PVR USB2 prom (which for PVR USB2 devices can contain information in
addition to the usual Hauppauge metadata).
Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 unused global functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Implement V4L2 driver for the Hauppauge PVR USB2 TV tuner.
The Hauppauge PVR USB2 is a USB connected TV tuner with an embedded
cx23416 hardware MPEG2 encoder. There are two major variants of this
device; this driver handles both. Any V4L2 application which
understands MPEG2 video stream data should be able to work with this
device.
Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Mike Isely