Hi Liam, I continued with the investigation and found really interesting things. See below: On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 5:32 PM Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 18:45 +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying how a non-BE link is converted to a BE link > > inside soc_check_tplg_fes. > > > > soc_check_tplg_fes > > => for all components that have ignore_machine setup to card name > > => dai_link->platforms->name = component->name; > > => dai_link->no_pcm = 1; > > > > But the thing is that the link is a true non-DPCM link, than fields > > like dpcm_playback/dpcm_capture are not set and playback/record > > substreams are no created. > > These fields should be being populated by topology since they are > runtime configuration on a non DPCM PCM device. > > > > > The question is: is this supposed to be working with non-DPCM links? > > Yes, it "should do" and did when I last tested - there were some non > DPCM Intel machine drivers that needed to work (grep -L no_pcm > sound/soc/intel/boards/*.c), but I am not as up to date as other on the > SOF driver core now. So if it's not working, it could be a regression > (as these non DPCM boards are not used now IIRC). Did you somehow tested it between March 27 and April 19. I think in this window span it should have worked. The history is like this: commit 45f8cb57da0d7a9ead4b39d7f5def333a5b0c08b Author: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 27 14:30:40 2018 +0100 ASoC: core: Allow topology to override machine driver FE DAI link config. This patch introduced the overriding FE capability. This patch contains something like this; + /* convert non BE into BE */ + dai_link->no_pcm = 1; + dai_link->dpcm_playback = 1; + dai_link->dpcm_capture = 1; then the patch got reverted by: commit 291bfb928863d496e25c785e132a8fbfb32341a8 Author: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 19 12:14:10 2018 +0100 ASoC: topology: Revert recent changes while boot errors are investigated and then when it got reinstantiated with: commit a655de808cbde6c58b3298e704d786b53f59fb5d Author: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 2 16:59:54 2018 +0100 ASoC: core: Allow topology to override machine driver FE DAI link config. it does have some changes one of them is that dpcm_playback/dpcm_capture are no longer set. + /* convert non BE into BE */ + dai_link->no_pcm = 1; Do you remember what was the root cause that caused the crash? I would like to re-add the following lines: + dai_link->dpcm_playback = 1; + dai_link->dpcm_capture = 1; With these two lines added back the non-DPCM link works well for me. Thanks a lot for your help. Can someone at Intel test following machine drivers for SOF: sound/soc/intel/boards/byt-max98090.c sound/soc/intel/boards/byt-rt5640.c I would expect them not to work for SOF case. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel