[alsa-devel] [PATCH V2] Add i.MX sound support

[javier Martin]

2009/11/30 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:43:23AM +0100, javier Martin wrote:
> > Hi Sascha,
> > have you tested capture direction on an i.MX27 based board?
> >
> > I have been testing your patches in the place you suggested and playback
> > seems to work fine but I have several problems with capture stream. I
> found
> > a BUG in the audmux_v1 code
> > and I have fixed it but I am still having problems with capture. The file
> > keeps empty and nothing is recorded.
>
> Capture works fine on my boards.
>
>
>
> > Please could you try the following on an i.MX27 based board?
> >
> > arecord -t raw -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav
>
> Does it work with two channels? Do you use DMA or FIQ? Could you try the
> other variant?
>

 Unfortunately, I can't test it using two channels because our board has a
wm8974 mono codec. Please could you point me how can I change between FIQ
and DMA? I thought FIQ was only for AC97,

It helped me a lot during development to use a tool like memedit
> (http://www.pengutronix.de/software/memedit/index_en.html) to show a
> register dump of the SSI/Audmux units of a working setup and a non
> working setup. Usually the differences showed quite fast why one was
> working and the other was not.
>

 Indeed, this will be my next step.

 Thank you for the tip.


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