Hello
I did some review and testing. Before that patch, IT9133 DVBv3 signal strength measurement was broken - it returned 0xffff all the time. After that is returns some realistic values between 0-0xffff.

Anyhow, AF9033 chip version it worked earlier too, just like old comment says hw returns 0-100, which was scaled to 0-0xffff.

AF9033 and IT9133 firmware differs on signal strength measurement. For AF9033 it provides both percentage and dBm reports, for IT9133 I know only dBm report.

AF9033:
0x800048 relative (0-100, percentage)
0x80004a decibel (-VAL dBm)

IT9133:
0x8000f7 decibel (VAL - 100 dBm)


Now you changed that AF9033 implementation from 0x800048 (percentage) to 0x80004a (dBm) and scale that to 0-0xffff, which results poorer result than old implementation calculated by firmware.

What I tested that implementation, it gives maximum value 0x6e14, which we could calc is 43dBm. I was using -18dBm RF level (which is very very strong), so I suspect that 43dBm is maximum what firmware even could report. Having maximum possible signal strength only 43% (out of 100%) is not nice.


So I ask you change AF9035 as it has been (percentage reported by FW). Change only non-working IT9135 what you like.

Also, add error checking just after register reads and jump out if fails.

regards
Antti


On 10/02/2014 08:32 AM, Bimow Chen wrote:
Register 0x800048 is not dB measure but relative scale. Fix it and conform to 
NorDig specifications.


0001-af9033-fix-DVBv3-signal-strength-value-not-correct-i.patch


From 02ee7de4600a43a322f75cf04d273effa04d3a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bimow Chen<bimow.c...@ite.com.tw>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 18:28:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] af9033: fix DVBv3 signal strength value not correct issue

Register 0x800048 is not dB measure but relative scale. Fix it and conform to 
NorDig specifications.

Signed-off-by: Bimow Chen<bimow.c...@ite.com.tw>
---
  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033.c      |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
  drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033_priv.h |    6 ++++
  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033.c 
b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033.c
index 63a89c1..2b3d2f0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033.c
@@ -862,16 +862,43 @@ static int af9033_read_snr(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u16 
*snr)
  static int af9033_read_signal_strength(struct dvb_frontend *fe, u16 *strength)
  {
        struct af9033_dev *dev = fe->demodulator_priv;
-       int ret;
-       u8 strength2;
+       struct dtv_frontend_properties *c = &dev->fe.dtv_property_cache;
+       int ret, tmp, power_real;
+       u8 u8tmp, gain_offset, buf[7];

-       /* read signal strength of 0-100 scale */
-       ret = af9033_rd_reg(dev, 0x800048, &strength2);
-       if (ret < 0)
-               goto err;
+       if (dev->is_af9035) {
+               ret = af9033_rd_reg(dev, 0x80004a, &u8tmp);
+               /* scale value to 0x0000-0xffff */
+               *strength = u8tmp * 0xffff / 100;
+       } else {
+               ret = af9033_rd_reg(dev, 0x8000f7, &u8tmp);
+               ret |= af9033_rd_regs(dev, 0x80f900, buf, 7);
+
+               if (c->frequency <= 300000000)
+                       gain_offset = 7; /* VHF */
+               else
+                       gain_offset = 4; /* UHF */
+
+               power_real = (u8tmp - 100 - gain_offset) -
+                       power_reference[((buf[3] >> 0) & 3)][((buf[6] >> 0) & 
7)];
+
+               if (power_real < -15)
+                       tmp = 0;
+               else if ((power_real >= -15) && (power_real < 0))
+                       tmp = (2 * (power_real + 15)) / 3;
+               else if ((power_real >= 0) && (power_real < 20))
+                       tmp = 4 * power_real + 10;
+               else if ((power_real >= 20) && (power_real < 35))
+                       tmp = (2 * (power_real - 20)) / 3 + 90;
+               else
+                       tmp = 100;
+
+               /* scale value to 0x0000-0xffff */
+               *strength = tmp * 0xffff / 100;
+       }

-       /* scale value to 0x0000-0xffff */
-       *strength = strength2 * 0xffff / 100;
+       if (ret)
+               goto err;

        return 0;

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033_priv.h 
b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033_priv.h
index c12c92c..c9c8798 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/af9033_priv.h
@@ -2051,4 +2051,10 @@ static const struct reg_val tuner_init_it9135_62[] = {
        { 0x80fd8b, 0x00 },
  };

+/* NorDig power reference table */
+static const int power_reference[][5] = {
+       {-93, -91, -90, -89, -88}, /* QPSK 1/2 ~ 7/8 */
+       {-87, -85, -84, -83, -82}, /* 16QAM 1/2 ~ 7/8 */
+       {-82, -80, -78, -77, -76}, /* 64QAM 1/2 ~ 7/8 */
+};
  #endif /* AF9033_PRIV_H */
-- 1.7.0.4


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