Hi Everyone,
This seems to be very similar to a problem I wrote about this morning and i am wondering if a solution was found?
Thank you, Jason Fox GAI-Tronics Reading PA
On 11/12/2010 10:52 PM, Irfan Shaikh wrote:
I had faced the similar issue on IMx31. The cause there was reversal of LRCK clock {180 degree phase shift}. probing the LRCK clock may help you to find the problem
From: alsa-devel-bounces at alsa-project.org [alsa-devel-bounces at alsa-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Ziegler [patrick.ziegler at fh-kl.de] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 1:36 PM To: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org Cc: Ryan Mallon Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Channel swapping problem on Atmel SSC audio
Am 11.11.2010 13:27, schrieb Alan Horstmann:
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 22:49, Ryan Mallon wrote:
I'm working on a custom board using the AT91SAM9G45 processor and a TLV320AIC26 SPI attached audio codec using I2S format audio. When doing audio playback on the board the left and right channels are occasionally flipped.
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Has anybody else had this problem, or does anybody have any AT91/Atmel hardware that they could test to see if it occurs on other hardware also?
I have worked with the AT91SAM9260 on a project which is currently suspended (other priorities), where we had a simiar problem, with a codec on SPI. Every time audio was started (capture or playback) the channels could be swapped. Solving that issue remains TODO when we restart.
There was a thread on alsa-devel last month 'Soc Atmel SSC stereo problem' with some suggestions.
Okay, so it's not just me.
In the thread mentioned, Alan proposed me amongst other things to test the LRCK level before starting the SSC. This works well for me. Maybe it should be implemented in a more generic way but the following modification does the trick for me.
in function atmel_pcm_trigger inside file sound/soc/atmel/atmel-pcm.c :
case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START: +while(!at91_get_gpio_value(AT91_PIN_PB12)); +while(at91_get_gpio_value(AT91_PIN_PB12));
case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_RESUME: +while(!at91_get_gpio_value(AT91_PIN_PB12)); +while(at91_get_gpio_value(AT91_PIN_PB12));
This appears to work, or at least makes the problem much more rare. I'm trying to understand if the problem is a silicon bug in the AT91 hardware, or if the DMA start code in the Atmel SoC driver is buggy.
I'm running with the CPU as the master (generating LRCLK and BCLK) and testing with playback (so CPU is clocking the data out). The TCMR register has the CKS field set to 0x4 (start on falling edge of LRCLK), so the above loops should not be necessary. I suspect that the above fix only makes the problem occur much less frequently, rather than fixing it correctly?
~Ryan