From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755474AbaKSLWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:22:17 -0500 Received: from fw-tnat.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.21]:54990 "EHLO cam-smtp0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755138AbaKSLWQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:22:16 -0500 Message-ID: <546C7D42.6000103@arm.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:21:38 +0000 From: Andrew Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King - ARM Linux CC: Dave Airlie , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Liviu Dudau , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i2c: tda998x: Allow for different audio sample rates References: <546B8452.6030701@arm.com> <20141118180036.GC4042@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20141118180036.GC4042@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/18/14 18:00, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 05:39:30PM +0000, Andrew Jackson wrote: >> On HDMI, the audio data are carried across the HDMI link which is >> driven by the TDMS clock. The TDMS clock is dependent on the video pixel >> rate. >> >> This patch sets the denominator (Cycle Time Stamp) appropriately >> allowing the driver to send audio to a wider range of HDMI sinks >> (i.e. monitors). > > This is actually pointless, because we don't use "manual" CTS mode. > > If the clocks for the video and audio are coherent, then you can program > both the N and CTS values to allow the sink to properly recover the > synchronous audio clock. > > However, in most cases, the audio and video clocks are not coherent, and > since the recovered audio clock has to match the source audio clock, the > only way this can be done is by the TDA998x (or in fact other HDMI > encoder) to measure the audio clock rate and generate the CTS value > itself. > > This is the mode we drive the TDA998x - so the programmed CTS value is > irrelevant. My apologies for the noise: I originally created the patch when one of the monitors with which I was working wouldn't play sound as expected. However, I now find that the monitor plays sound with or without the patch so it must have been something else. I'd missed the significance of the "auto CTS" comment a few lines earlier (partly because I've no datasheet on the TDA998x). Andrew