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[Bartosz Kosiorek <gang65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas.

Is it possible that Canonical or BQ ask chipset vendor (Mediatek?), for FM
Radio / Audio specification?
It will drastically simplify FM Radio implementation.

Best Regards
B



2015-12-17 10:59 GMT+01:00 Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Alberto Mardegan
> <alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 17.12.2015 12:01, sturmflut wrote:
> >> Good morning dear list,
> >>
> >> it's time for the "good news, bad news" part again.
> >
> > Thanks Simon for looking into this!
> >
> > In your previous mail, you mentioned that another possibility is to use
> > the android library via libhybris; wouldn't that eliminate the need of
> > figuring out the magic numbers and setup the audio system? Or did I
> > misunderstand something?
> >
>
> The complication is that fm radio is highly vendor-specific and it
> ultimately boils down
> to a maintenance problem. In addition, the android libraries *might*
> require certain parts of android
> running that are not present in our container.
>
> With that, if we can solely rely on ioctl's, it is easier to just fold
> those into one app and keep the maintenance burden to a minimum.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   T
>
> > Ciao,
> >   Alberto
> >
> >
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