[alsa-devel] pxassp dma pointer not moving

[Liam Girdwood]

On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:16 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> Hi Liam,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:07:57PM +0000, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > > I'm currently implementing support for a board based on a PXA300 with an
> > > I2S codec (CS4270) next to it. Things do work in general, including the
> > > setup of the SSP engine and clocks, and when using the OSS compat layer,
> > > I can see data on the bus. With the native ALSA API, however, the DMA
> > > pointer does not move forward but is stuck at position 8. ALSA's core
> > > calls pxa2xx_pcm_pointer() a couple of times and eventually gives up on
> > > it. Unfortunately, I don't have a Zylonite board for cross-check; could
> > > anyone verify that things are not currently broken in a general way?
> > > 
> > > My code base is up-to-date to sound-2.6.git/for-2.6.30.
> > 
> > Can't test on my zylonite atm, but static DMA pointers usually mean data
> > is not being clocked out of the SSP FIFO. Can you check you are
> > supplying a BCLK and LRC to the SSP port (if codec is BCLK/LRC master)
> > or have enabled the PXA SSP master mode (if codec slave).
> 
> All the clocks are there, they're only driven by the Codec, and they look
> fine. And thus, the CPU DAI is set to SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFM.
> 
> What puzzles me is that the whole system works when I cat /dev/urandom
> to /dev/dsp (the DMA pointer is moving forward just as expected), only
> when using aplay it doesn't do anything.

Ah, Please see later email re buildroot. Interestingly someone had
exactly the same issue (on OMAP iirc) with buildroot alsa-lib on
#alsa-soc last week.

Liam