[alsa-devel] plughw, access modes

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Nenad Sljivic wrote:

> Greetings guys,
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> I am dealing with the device driver for the chip that has his own hardware
> buffer and the DMA is not available. Therefore, driver doesn't support MMAP
> access and the data is copied using the copy file operation. My HW natively
> supports BE format.
>
> However, I would like to be able to play little endian pcm as well.
>
> The problem, occurs when I try to use plughw device in order to play LE pcm
> file
>
>
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> " aplay: set_params:1022: Unable to install hw params: "
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>
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> My debugging session proved me that plughw device is trying to access device
> driver with MMAP_INTERLEAVED mode. Does it mean that this is the only way
> for plughw to access device driver, and that I am not able to use plugins
> unless do some heavy modifications of device drivers (implement mmap
> access). Am I missing something?

You may enable mmap_emulation for the hw: plugin - see mmap_emulation in:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/asoundrc.txt;hb=HEAD

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.