[alsa-devel] Problem with MX27 ASoC audio

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:15:47PM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> I have a target that uses iMX27(L) + tlv320aic3x. The kernel tree is
> HEAD of linux-arm from about a week ago.
> 
> Simple playback and recording (using aplay and arecord) work fine.
> However, I've run into a strange problem when both playback and
> capture streams are opened at the same time.
> 
> Consider the attached test program. The capture device is setup with a
> period time of 10ms, and the program reads samples in a loop. The
> expected result is that I get a sample every 10ms. This works fine if
> the playback device is *not* opened (more specifically, if the
> hw_params are not set). However if the playback device is opened (#if
> 1 code) then I get samples every 20ms, which seems very wrong.
> 
> I have tried using both DMA and FIQ ssi-pcm interfaces and both give
> the same strange result. With the FIQ driver, if I instrument the
> timer callback, the timer triggers every 10ms but there is only enough
> data every 20ms.
> 
> The codec is being driven with a 13MHz MCLK (output from MX27) and the
> BCLK and WCLK come from the codec. They seem to have the correct
> rates.
> 
> Any ideas? Can anybody else with MX27 hardware verify if my test
> program also fails on their target?

You should check the return values of the snd_pcm_hw_params_* functions.
At least snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels fails because we currently only
support two channels. I'm not sure whether we can support one channel
mode without changes to the driver.

Sascha


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