Re: OMAP Audio

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On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:03:39 ext Jarkko Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:19:25 -0700
> 
> Gary Thomas <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I need to connect the OMAP (3530) to a 24bit CODEC.  So far
> > my attempts at getting this to go have not gone well.  Then
> > 
> > I ran across this comment in sound/soc/omap/omap-pcm.c:
> > 	/*
> > 	
> > 	 * Note: Regardless of interface data formats supported by OMAP McBSP
> > 	 * or EAC blocks, internal representation is always fixed 16-bit/sample
> > 	 */
> > 
> > Does this mean that this setup is just not supported?  even though
> > the hardware can handle it?
> 
> Yep, comment is bit misleading but true until some patch will remove
> it. IRCC, the EAC was limited to 16-bit and also there wasn't need and
> HW to test other formats than S16_LE in McBSP DAI.
> 
> > Thanks for any pointers or ideas on how to get this going.
> 
> I would first start adding support for the S32_LE into omap-pcm.c (DMA
> part). Worth to look this thread:
> 
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-January/024704.ht
> ml
> 
> Then add support for this format to the omap-mcbsp.c (link
> configuration part).
> 
> Next step would be to add support for the S24_LE on 4-byte boundaries.
> I.e. the DMA is moving 32-bit samples between the memory and McBSP but
> only 24-bits are transferred over the McBSP and codec.

Hmmm, I think this is a bit more complicated than that at least on OMAP3.
I think the DMA engine should also move 24 bit words.
This is dictated by the McBSP FIFO: it has a notion of word size, and it is 
expecting that the DMA engine will move THRESHOLD number of words. So if the 
McBSP is configured for 24 bit words, than the DMA word size has to match that.

Apart from this, the constraint set for the period bytes need to be changed 
since as you change the word size in McBSP you will have different amount of 
actual bytes for the FIFO (the FIFO size is in words, and the maximum word size 
is 32 bit).

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Péter
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