Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hda_intel: Add Lynx Point HD Audio ControllerDeviceIDs

From: David Henningsson
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 23:51:08 EST


On 02/07/2012 01:13 AM, Heasley, Seth wrote:
This patch adds the HD Audio DeviceIDs for the Intel Lynx Point PCH.

Thanks. As we asked for oak trail: can you confirm you prefer DMA
Position buffers for detecting current playback/recording position,
over
using the LPIB register?

Yes, thanks for the notice.

I guess this won't need it since it's the successor of PPT.
But it's always good to check it for the new hardware, indeed.

I'm also in favor of not rocking the boat, but I'm curious what changing this would entail, and what would be the advantage or rationale for making the change?

Reading the LPIB register, and reading the DMA position buffer, are two different methods of reading the current playback (or recording) position, i e which sample is currently being played back.

The problem is that some chipsets prefer one method over the other, i e, only one of the methods work reliably. And if the other method only breaks occasionally, this can be quite difficult to detect and track down - we will have users complaining about their audio sometimes either sounding distorted, maybe not working at all, or just once in a while glitches. All of these symptoms can have many causes, so deducing that to a broken playback position is time consuming. That's why I think it's worth the extra question, to get it right from the start.

So...thanks in advance for looking it up for us? :-)

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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