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    [media] dib8000: estimate strength in dBm · b4600d70
    Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
    Better to have Signal strength in dB.
    This takes a very rough estimation for the signal strength,
    that was calibrated using a Dektec DTA-2111 Gold RF generator
    and a Pixelview dib8076 stick.
    
    It estimates the signal strength using a linear equation where:
    	- the max is -22.5 dBm, with returns 55953
    	- the min is -35.0 dBm, with returns 50110
    
    With -22dBm, the signal strengh is returned as 65535.
    Unfortunately, the min strength generated with DTA-2111 is
    -35dBm.
    
    It should be noticed that approximating it by a linear equation
    is not right. I should probably be splitting it into 0.5 dB
    linear segments, in order to get a higher precision, just like
    it is done on mb86a20s, but that would force me to add some
    attenuators, in order to get dB levels below -35dBm, which is,
    btw, strong enough to get signal lock.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPatrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
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