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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Yakir Yang <ykk@rock-chips.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 12/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: add audio driver
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 19:11:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150509181153.GV2067@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554E49FE.8040004@iki.fi>

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 08:55:10PM +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> 09.05.2015, 20:40, Russell King - ARM Linux kirjoitti:
> > Even VLC _doesn't_ if it's outputting to a standard audio - in other
> > words, if you don't tick the SPDIF direct output option which defaults
> > to disabled (which, when enabled, opens the device passing the AES
> > bits _and_ permits it to send a compressed audio stream.)  I've looked
> > at this in VLC many times...
> 
> That is my understanding as well. Same for pulseaudio, it doesn't set
> any AES bits except for passthrough (and most other applications never
> set them).

Right, so when you're dealing with HDMI, where it's required that the
AES bits contain accurate information, the only real option is to set
it appropriately in the driver if userspace doesn't specify the AES
data bits.

Now, with the dw-hdmi-ahb driver, I'm doing something sensible - and
yes, I do have a card file in /usr/share/alsa (see below).

What this does is ensure that linear PCM is converted to 24-bit PCM
(which makes the kernel conversion to the required hardware format
easier - I hate this, I'd much prefer it to be done in userspace.)

However, in the case of VLC, if it wants to send non-audio, it will
open the IEC958 device, which will use the iec958 plugin to configure
the AES bits for non-audio, and pass IEC958 data to the kernel (which
still needs to be reformatted to the hardware's special format.)

dw-hdmi-ahb-aud.pcm.default {
	@args [ CARD ]
	@args.CARD { type string }
	type asym
	playback.pcm {
		type softvol
		slave.pcm {
			type plug
			slave.pcm {
				@func concat
				strings [ "dmix:" $CARD ",FORMAT=S24_LE" ]
			}
		}
		control {
			name "PCM Playback Volume"
			card $CARD
		}
	}
}

<confdir:pcm/iec958.conf>

dw-hdmi-ahb-aud.pcm.iec958.0 {
	@args [ CARD AES0 AES1 AES2 AES3 ]
	@args.CARD { type string }
	@args.AES0 { type integer }
	@args.AES1 { type integer }
	@args.AES2 { type integer }
	@args.AES3 { type integer }
	type iec958
	slave.pcm {
		type hw
		card $CARD
		device 0
	}
	slave.format IEC958_SUBFRAME_LE
	status [ $AES0 $AES1 $AES2 $AES3 ]
}


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-09 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-02  9:20 [RFC v2 0/13] dw_hdmi cleanups, audio preparation, helpers and ahb audio support Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/13] drm: imx/dw_hdmi: move phy comments Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: clean up phy configuration Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: clean up hdmi_set_clk_regenerator() Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: use drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_from_display_mode() Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: simplify hdmi_config_AVI() a little Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: remove mhsyncpolarity/mvsyncpolarity/minterlaced Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: introduce interface to setting sample rate Russell King
2015-04-02  9:21 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: introduce interfaces to enable and disable audio Russell King
2015-04-02  9:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/13] drm/edid: add function to help find SADs Russell King
2015-04-02  9:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/13] sound/core: add DRM ELD helper Russell King
2015-04-05 15:57   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-04-05 16:20     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-05 16:46       ` Takashi Iwai
2015-04-05 17:26         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-06 17:02           ` Anssi Hannula
2015-05-07 10:41             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-07 11:11               ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-05-08 10:56           ` [alsa-devel] " Jyri Sarha
2015-05-08 11:42             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-05 22:35     ` Mark Brown
2015-05-06  8:58       ` Liam Girdwood
2015-05-08 13:16   ` [alsa-devel] " Jyri Sarha
2015-05-08 13:27     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-08 13:37       ` Jyri Sarha
2015-04-02  9:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/13] sound/core: add IEC958 channel status helper Russell King
2015-04-02  9:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: add audio driver Russell King
2015-04-02  9:22 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: parse ELD from HDMI driver Russell King
2015-05-09 10:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/13] dw_hdmi cleanups, audio preparation, helpers and ahb audio support Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-09 10:25   ` [PATCH 01/13] drm: imx/dw_hdmi: move phy comments Russell King
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 02/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: clean up phy configuration Russell King
2015-05-22 15:19     ` Yakir
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 03/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: clean up hdmi_set_clk_regenerator() Russell King
2015-05-22 15:22     ` Yakir
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 04/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: use drm_hdmi_avi_infoframe_from_display_mode() Russell King
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 05/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: simplify hdmi_config_AVI() a little Russell King
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 06/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: remove mhsyncpolarity/mvsyncpolarity/minterlaced Russell King
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 07/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: introduce interface to setting sample rate Russell King
2015-05-22 15:26     ` Yakir
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 08/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi: introduce interfaces to enable and disable audio Russell King
2015-05-22 15:28     ` Yakir
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 09/13] drm/edid: add function to help find SADs Russell King
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 10/13] sound/core: add DRM ELD helper Russell King
2015-05-22 12:20     ` [alsa-devel] " Mark Brown
2015-05-22 13:15       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-22 13:30         ` Takashi Iwai
2015-05-22 13:53           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-22 13:54             ` Takashi Iwai
2015-05-22 14:00               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-22 14:02                 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-05-22 14:05                   ` Takashi Iwai
2015-05-22 16:12                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 11/13] sound/core: add IEC958 channel status helper Russell King
2015-05-22 12:40     ` Mark Brown
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 12/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: add audio driver Russell King
2015-05-09 16:49     ` [alsa-devel] " Anssi Hannula
2015-05-09 16:55       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-09 17:07         ` Anssi Hannula
2015-05-09 17:40           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-09 17:53             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-09 17:55             ` Anssi Hannula
2015-05-09 18:11               ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2015-05-10 18:59                 ` Anssi Hannula
2015-05-10 19:33                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-10 20:47                     ` Anssi Hannula
2015-05-11 15:58                     ` Mark Brown
2015-05-09 10:26   ` [PATCH 13/13] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: parse ELD from HDMI driver Russell King
2015-05-27 10:43     ` Daniel Vetter
2015-05-27 11:43       ` Mark Brown
2015-05-27 17:31       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-27 21:29         ` Daniel Vetter
2015-05-27 21:44           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-28  6:43             ` Daniel Vetter
2015-05-28  4:56         ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai

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