Support for new SDR devices

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Pau Espin Pedrol pespin at sysmocom.de
Mon Aug 17 09:01:38 UTC 2020


Hi,

On 8/8/20 3:46 PM, Xaver Zu wrote:
> What exactly does a "device backend" mean?
> Is it content of osmo-trx/Transceiver52M/device/pciesdr/ or lower layers
> (libsdr, kernel drivers or HW)?
> This crash happen after device stop - start (caused by cmd PWROFF from
> osmo-bts).

When I talk about osmo-trx I mean each of osmo-trx-* binaries, which
basically differ on the code being taken from a different directory in
osmo-trx/Transceiver52M/device/ each.

> 
> PCIESDRDevice.cpp:363 [tid=140137302865664] rc < 0
> <0002> PCIESDRDevice.cpp:364 [tid=140137302865664] Sample buffer: Requested
> 
> I haven't found a working solution yet. Starting the demon again helps.
> 
> I managed to reach an uptime of more than 3 hours with one MS connected.
> So I decide push it into gerrit for review
> https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-trx/+/19548

Thanks, I'll have a look at some point when I find some time.

> 
> Are you considering adding support for floating format samples to the
> radio interface?

No one is working or planning to work on that as far as I am concerned.

> The proprietary libsdr.so library (driver from manufacturer) expects
> samples in float format. I have to convert short to float again during
> Rx / Tx.
> 
> I received a feedbak from laforge with a request to complete the PCIeSDR
> description. Is it possible to create a page on the wiki for this purpose?

Sure, ask for permissions to edit the wiki here if you don't have them yet.


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