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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
To: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/27] media: dvb/intro: adjust the notices about optional hardware
Date: Fri,  1 Sep 2017 10:24:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dcf27f4891893df94bcc7bc20f94b64ac368bc1.1504272067.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1504272067.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1504272067.git.mchehab@s-opensource.com>

Both CA and decoders are optional. Also, the presence or
absence has nothing to do on being a PCI card or not.

Nowadays, most hardware leaves the decoders to either the
GPU or to some ISP inside the SoC, instead of implementing
it inside the Digital TV part of the device.

So, change the wording to reflect the hardware changes.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
---
 Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/intro.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/intro.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/intro.rst
index 4e1594816ef4..aeafc9ab96c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/intro.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/intro.rst
@@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ Overview
 A Digital TV card or set-top-box (STB) usually consists of the
 following main hardware components:
 
--  Frontend consisting of tuner and digital TV demodulator
-
+Frontend consisting of tuner and digital TV demodulator
    Here the raw signal reaches the digital TV hardware from a satellite dish or
    antenna or directly from cable. The frontend down-converts and
    demodulates this signal into an MPEG transport stream (TS). In case
@@ -80,34 +79,40 @@ following main hardware components:
    equipment control (SEC), which allows control of LNB polarization,
    multi feed switches or dish rotors.
 
--  Conditional Access (CA) hardware like CI adapters and smartcard slots
-
+Conditional Access (CA) hardware like CI adapters and smartcard slots
    The complete TS is passed through the CA hardware. Programs to which
    the user has access (controlled by the smart card) are decoded in
    real time and re-inserted into the TS.
 
--  Demultiplexer which filters the incoming DVB stream
+   .. note::
 
+      Not every digital TV hardware provides conditional access hardware.
+
+Demultiplexer which filters the incoming DVB stream
    The demultiplexer splits the TS into its components like audio and
    video streams. Besides usually several of such audio and video
    streams it also contains data streams with information about the
    programs offered in this or other streams of the same provider.
 
--  MPEG2 audio and video decoder
-
+MPEG2 audio and video decoder
    The main targets of the demultiplexer are the MPEG2 audio and video
    decoders. After decoding they pass on the uncompressed audio and
    video to the computer screen or (through a PAL/NTSC encoder) to a TV
    set.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      Modern hardware usually doesn't have a separate decoder hardware, as
+      such functionality can be provided by the main CPU, by the graphics
+      adapter of the system or by a signal processing hardware embedded on
+      a Systems on a Chip (SoC) integrated circuit.
+
+      It may also not be needed for certain usages (e.g. for data-only
+      uses like “internet over satellite”).
+
 :ref:`stb_components` shows a crude schematic of the control and data
 flow between those components.
 
-On a DVB PCI card not all of these have to be present since some
-functionality can be provided by the main CPU of the PC (e.g. MPEG
-picture and sound decoding) or is not needed (e.g. for data-only uses
-like “internet over satellite”). Also not every card or STB provides
-conditional access hardware.
 
 
 .. _dvb_devices:
-- 
2.13.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-01 13:24 [PATCH v2 00/26] Improve DVB documentation and reduce its gap Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/27] media: ca.h: split typedefs from structs Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/27] media: dmx.h: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 03/27] media: dvb/intro: use the term Digital TV to refer to the system Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 04/27] media: dvb/intro: update references for TV standards Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 05/27] media: dvb/intro: update the history part of the document Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/27] media: dvb/frontend.h: move out a private internal structure Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/27] media: dvb/frontend.h: document the uAPI file Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/27] media: dvb frontend docs: use kernel-doc documentation Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/27] media: fe_property_parameters.rst: better define properties usage Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 11/27] media: fe_property_parameters.rst: better document bandwidth Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 12/27] media: dmx.h: get rid of unused DMX_KERNEL_CLIENT Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 13/27] media: dmx.h: get rid of DMX_GET_CAPS Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 14/27] media: dmx.h: get rid of DMX_SET_SOURCE Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 15/27] media: dmx.h: get rid of GET_DMX_EVENT Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 16/27] media: dmx.h: add kernel-doc markups and use it at Documentation/ Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 17/27] media: net.rst: Fix the level of a section of the net chapter Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 18/27] media: ca.h: get rid of CA_SET_PID Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 19/27] media: ca.h: document most CA data types Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 20/27] media: dst_ca: return a proper error code from CA errors Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 21/27] media: ca-reset.rst: add some description to this ioctl Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 22/27] media: ca-get-cap.rst: document " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 23/27] media: ca-get-slot-info.rst: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 24/27] media: ca-get-descr-info.rst: " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 25/27] media: dvb CA docs: place undocumented data together with ioctls Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 26/27] media: dvb rst: identify the documentation gap at the API Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-01 13:24 ` [PATCH v2 27/27] media: dst_ca: remove CA_SET_DESCR boilerplate Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-03 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/26] Improve DVB documentation and reduce its gap Honza Petrouš
2017-09-04  0:54   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-04  7:12     ` Honza Petrouš
2017-09-04  9:06       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-04  9:40         ` Honza Petrouš
2017-09-04 11:46           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-04  1:17   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-09-03 20:31 ` Honza Petrouš

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