[alsa-devel] ASoC: at91sam9260-PCM1808/TAS5709-based board driver

[Pedro I. Sanchez]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:24:59 -0400, "Pedro I. Sanchez"
<psanchez at fosstel.com> wrote:
> Well, it turns out that the TAS5709 documentation doesn't say the whole
> story. It seems that after all the chip can only guess the incoming bit
> rates in rare occasions and I can't really rely on this. What the chip
> really needs is a MCLK signal which is a multiple of the sound file's
> sample frequency. This is a third clock line to be provided to that chip
in
> addition to the regular TF (frame) and TK (bit) clocks from the SSC
> interface.
> 
> Now I know that I have to output this additional clock line via one of
the
> gpio pins of the SoC and therefore I have to somehow "attach" one of the
> CPU internal timers to one of the SoC gpio pins (PC6, linux gpio102 pin
to
> be more exact). I have the following (borrowed) code now:
> 
> 	/* PCK0 provides MCLK */
> 	at91_set_A_periph(AT91_PIN_PC6, 0);
> 
> How is this linking the internal pck0 timer to pin PC6? or is it?
> 
> And then I have
> 
>         /*
>          * Codec MCLK is supplied by PCK0 - set it up.
>          */
>         mclk = clk_get(NULL, "pck0");
>         if (IS_ERR(mclk)) {
>                 pr_err("%s: Failed to get MCLK\n", __func__);
>                 ret = PTR_ERR(mclk);
>                 goto err;
>         }
> 
>         pllb = clk_get(NULL, "pllb");
>         if (IS_ERR(pllb)) {
>                 pr_err("%s: Failed to get PLLB\n", __func__);
>                 ret = PTR_ERR(pllb);
>                 goto err_pllb;
>         }
>         
>         ret = clk_set_parent(mclk, pllb);
>         if (ret != 0) {
>                 pr_err("%s: Failed to set MCLK parent\n", __func__);
>                 goto err_parent;
>         }
> 
>         clk_set_rate(mclk, 11289600);
>         clk_put(pllb);
>         pr_info("%s: MCLK rate %luHz\n", __func__, clk_get_rate(mclk));
> 
> ... but it prints "MCLK rate 6000000Hz". Where does the 600000 come from,
I
> don't know. And certainly there is no clock on the PC6 pin :-(
> 
> 
> Mark, or someone, any enlightenment on how to proceed would be very much
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,

BTW, I forgot to mention that this board is just a slight variation of the
sam9260ek eval board and I would suspect that the internal wiring of the
SoC is pretty much the same. So understanding how to use the programmable
clocks on the latter should give me the solution for the former.

Thanks,

-- 
Pedro