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authorAntti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>2013-12-20 01:50:38 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>2014-03-05 14:16:25 -0300
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[media] DocBook: Software Defined Radio Interface
Document V4L2 SDR interface. Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-sdr.xml104
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml6
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
index c4cac6dbf9af..0b4db0e524ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml
@@ -2535,6 +2535,16 @@ fields changed from _s32 to _u32.
</orderedlist>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>V4L2 in Linux 3.15</title>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Added Software Defined Radio (SDR) Interface.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
+
<section id="other">
<title>Relation of V4L2 to other Linux multimedia APIs</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-sdr.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-sdr.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..332b87f073cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-sdr.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+ <title>Software Defined Radio Interface (SDR)</title>
+
+ <para>
+SDR is an abbreviation of Software Defined Radio, the radio device
+which uses application software for modulation or demodulation. This interface
+is intended for controlling and data streaming of such devices.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+SDR devices are accessed through character device special files named
+<filename>/dev/swradio0</filename> to <filename>/dev/swradio255</filename>
+with major number 81 and dynamically allocated minor numbers 0 to 255.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Querying Capabilities</title>
+
+ <para>
+Devices supporting the SDR receiver interface set the
+<constant>V4L2_CAP_SDR_CAPTURE</constant> and
+<constant>V4L2_CAP_TUNER</constant> flag in the
+<structfield>capabilities</structfield> field of &v4l2-capability;
+returned by the &VIDIOC-QUERYCAP; ioctl. That flag means the device has an
+Analog to Digital Converter (ADC), which is a mandatory element for the SDR receiver.
+At least one of the read/write, streaming or asynchronous I/O methods must
+be supported.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Supplemental Functions</title>
+
+ <para>
+SDR devices can support <link linkend="control">controls</link>, and must
+support the <link linkend="tuner">tuner</link> ioctls. Tuner ioctls are used
+for setting the ADC sampling rate (sampling frequency) and the possible RF tuner
+frequency.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+The <constant>V4L2_TUNER_ADC</constant> tuner type is used for ADC tuners, and
+the <constant>V4L2_TUNER_RF</constant> tuner type is used for RF tuners. The
+tuner index of the RF tuner (if any) must always follow the ADC tuner index.
+Normally the ADC tuner is #0 and the RF tuner is #1.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+The &VIDIOC-S-HW-FREQ-SEEK; ioctl is not supported.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Data Format Negotiation</title>
+
+ <para>
+The SDR capture device uses the <link linkend="format">format</link> ioctls to
+select the capture format. Both the sampling resolution and the data streaming
+format are bound to that selectable format. In addition to the basic
+<link linkend="format">format</link> ioctls, the &VIDIOC-ENUM-FMT; ioctl
+must be supported as well.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+To use the <link linkend="format">format</link> ioctls applications set the
+<structfield>type</structfield> field of a &v4l2-format; to
+<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_SDR_CAPTURE</constant> and use the &v4l2-format-sdr;
+<structfield>sdr</structfield> member of the <structfield>fmt</structfield>
+union as needed per the desired operation.
+Currently only the <structfield>pixelformat</structfield> field of
+&v4l2-format-sdr; is used. The content of that field is the V4L2 fourcc code
+of the data format.
+ </para>
+
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-format-sdr">
+ <title>struct <structname>v4l2_format_sdr</structname></title>
+ <tgroup cols="3">
+ &cs-str;
+ <tbody valign="top">
+ <row>
+ <entry>__u32</entry>
+ <entry><structfield>pixelformat</structfield></entry>
+ <entry>
+The data format or type of compression, set by the application. This is a
+little endian <link linkend="v4l2-fourcc">four character code</link>.
+V4L2 defines SDR formats in <xref linkend="sdr-formats" />.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>__u8</entry>
+ <entry><structfield>reserved[28]</structfield></entry>
+ <entry>This array is reserved for future extensions.
+Drivers and applications must set it to zero.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <para>
+An SDR device may support <link linkend="rw">read/write</link>
+and/or streaming (<link linkend="mmap">memory mapping</link>
+or <link linkend="userp">user pointer</link>) I/O.
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
index 2c4c068dde83..1fb11e8d2a26 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
@@ -1005,6 +1005,12 @@ should set this to 0.</entry>
<entry>Buffer for video output overlay (OSD), see <xref
linkend="osd" />.</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_SDR_CAPTURE</constant></entry>
+ <entry>11</entry>
+ <entry>Buffer for Software Defined Radio (SDR), see <xref
+ linkend="sdr" />.</entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
index 72d72bd67d0a..f586d3441b96 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
@@ -811,6 +811,14 @@ extended control <constant>V4L2_CID_MPEG_STREAM_TYPE</constant>, see
</table>
</section>
+ <section id="sdr-formats">
+ <title>SDR Formats</title>
+
+ <para>These formats are used for <link linkend="sdr">SDR Capture</link>
+interface only.</para>
+
+ </section>
+
<section id="pixfmt-reserved">
<title>Reserved Format Identifiers</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml
index 6bf35328dcbf..e826d1d5df08 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ and discussions on the V4L mailing list.</revremark>
<section id="ttx"> &sub-dev-teletext; </section>
<section id="radio"> &sub-dev-radio; </section>
<section id="rds"> &sub-dev-rds; </section>
+ <section id="sdr"> &sub-dev-sdr; </section>
<section id="event"> &sub-dev-event; </section>
<section id="subdev"> &sub-dev-subdev; </section>
</chapter>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml
index ee8f56e1bac0..f43f1a9285d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml
@@ -172,6 +172,13 @@ capture and output devices.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry></entry>
+ <entry>&v4l2-format-sdr;</entry>
+ <entry><structfield>sdr</structfield></entry>
+ <entry>Definition of a data format, see
+<xref linkend="pixfmt" />, used by SDR capture devices.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry></entry>
<entry>__u8</entry>
<entry><structfield>raw_data</structfield>[200]</entry>
<entry>Place holder for future extensions.</entry>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml
index d5a3c97b206a..370d49d6fb64 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ modulator programming see
<xref linkend="tuner" />.</entry>
</row>
<row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CAP_SDR_CAPTURE</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x00100000</entry>
+ <entry>The device supports the
+<link linkend="sdr">SDR Capture</link> interface.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_CAP_READWRITE</constant></entry>
<entry>0x01000000</entry>
<entry>The device supports the <link