[alsa-devel] [Alsa-user] hdmi sound rerouted?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:36:24 +0000,
Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai at suse.de]
> > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 5:18 AM
> > To: Deucher, Alexander
> > Cc: Clemens Ladisch; Dagg Stompler; alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net; alsa-
> > devel at alsa-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [Alsa-user] hdmi sound rerouted?
> > 
> > At Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:23:22 +0000,
> > Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Clemens Ladisch [mailto:cladisch at googlemail.com]
> > > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 6:33 PM
> > > > To: Dagg Stompler
> > > > Cc: alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net; Deucher, Alexander; alsa-
> > devel at alsa-
> > > > project.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] hdmi sound rerouted?
> > > >
> > > > Dagg Stompler wrote:
> > > > >> daggs at gmx.com wrote:
> > > > >>> card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
> > > > >>> card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
> > > > >>> card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The second one is called "Generic" because your kernel does not (yet)
> > > > >> know the hardware.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar
> > > > HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
> > > > >>> 06:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV635
> > > > HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3600 Series]
> > > > >>
> > > > >> These are the HDMI outputs of *two* graphics cards. The first one's
> > > > >> model is so new that the driver doesn't know it.
> > > > >
> > > > > the 3600 doesn't have hdmi socket so I think it is irrelevant for my issue.
> > > >
> > > > The RV635 chip does support HDMI outputs (even if none are actually
> > > > connected), so the corresponding PCI device shows up here.
> > > >
> > > > >>> If you update the kernel, you will get two devices named "HDA ATI
> > > > HDMI".
> > > > >
> > > > > upgrade to where?
> > > >
> > > > Oops.  Even the latest driver lacks the PCI IDs of many HDMI HDA devices
> > > > (aa50/aa58/aa60/aa68/aa80/aa88/aa90/aa98:
> > > > Cypress/Juniper/Redwood/Cedar/
> > > > Cayman+Antilles/Barts/Turks/Caicos).
> > > >
> > > > Alex, are these devices that require disabling snooping?
> > >
> > > Sorry what does snooping mean in this context?
> > 
> > Most of HD-audio controller have a snoop control, but the recent AMD
> > HDMI audio controller don't have the feature, thus the driver must use
> > the non-cached pages.  At least, PCI ID 1002:aaa0, aaa8 and aab0 are
> > known to require such.
> > 
> > Now the question is whether all new chips above (aa50,...) require the
> > same workaround, too.  Could you check this or forward the inquiry to
> > someone in AMD?
> 
> According to our internal teams, disabling snooping is only required on the audio parts included in Evergreen and Northern Islands GPUs.  Older chips like R7xx (aa48) and newer chips like Southern Islands (aaa0) are able to use snooping.  I'm not real familiar with the audio portions of the GPUs so if you need further clarification, let me know.

Thanks for the information.

Though, it's strange that the information doesn't match with what I've
heard (and also with what I've tested with a laptop).  I've heard that
it's Southern Island HDMI that needs the snoop-disablement.

Could you ask again whether it's really Evergreen / Nothern Islands?


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> Alex
> 
> > 
> > FWIW, such a chip needs to set AZX_DRIVER_ATIHDMI_NS bits in
> > driver_data of pci entries in sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c.
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Takashi
> 
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