[alsa-devel] Issues with ALSA:ice1724 sound cards on powerpc machines

[Julian Margetson]

On 4/11/2016 6:14 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
> On 4/11/2016 1:32 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
>> On 4/11/2016 10:44 AM, Pavel Hofman wrote:
>>> Dne 11.4.2016 v 16:11 Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
>>>> On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:58:14 +0200,
>>>> Julian Margetson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/17/2016 2:29 PM, Julian Margetson wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having an issue issue with ice1724 sound cards on powerpc 
>>>>>> motherboards.
>>>>>> Motherboards in question Acube Sam460ex .
>>>>>> The card appears as a valid device but there is no sound output 
>>>>>> on the
>>>>>> majority of boots of the computer.
>>>>>> Logs attached.
>>>>>> On the first set boot audio playback produced sound ok.
>>>>>> On the second set boot no sound was produce with audio playback
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Julian Margetson
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any ideas ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Resubmitting again with links to logs instead of included as 
>>>>> attachments.
>>>>> The issue also seen on A-Eon Cyrus P5020 motherboard .
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/72labcje9z1r1b7/1alsa-info.txt.7CLHMG0Gap?dl=0 
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1pn5kjqrvwu16f/boot_1.log?dl=0
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/uuaa14rkpmmz1o0/2alsa-info.txt.VKiEVuytiJ?dl=0 
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wwu2f5t93l8g26d/boot_2.log?dl=0
>>>>
>>>> I have no concrete idea, but in general, the usual problems on PPC are
>>>> either related with cache coherency or byte endianness.  I don't know
>>>> of any issue with the latter in ice1724 driver, so likely it's the
>>>> former.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps the ice1724 driver was not even tested properly with the 
>>> AC97 codec. Do we know of any separate PCI ice1724 card with this 
>>> codec?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Pavel Hofman.
>>>
>>>
>> The second board mentioned , the Aeon Cyrus ,uses a P5020 so is cache 
>> coherent .
>> The problem may be in the initialization of the sound card as on some 
>> boots with my board , an Acube Sam460ex, it works perfectly. I have  
>> tested a CMI8738 pciex1 sound card which works perfectly as do USB 
>> cm108 based external cards .
>>
>> I also have a PCI ice1724 version of the card  (never used in this 
>> machine) as well as 2 different pciex1  ice1724 cards with the codec .
>> The Sam460ex only has 1 pci slot normally used for the SATA card and 
>> 1 shared pcie or SATA II.
>> I could test with  the pci card by booting from USB .
>> So either configure as 1 pciex1 slot or 1 on board SATA II .
>> I am helping to test the onboard sata-dwc but am happy to test any 
>> ideas for a solution to the audio issues as well.
>> Will mean reconfiguring my machine back an forth but worth it for 
>> solutions in both areas .
>>
>> Regards
>> Julian
>>
>>
>>
>>
> This is the pci model .
>
> http://www.amazon.com/SIIG-Soundwave-5-1-Pci-lp-LP-000022-S2/dp/B0036VNVWE 
>

PCI model has IRQ problem with the Sam460ex so that option wont be of 
any help.

[    6.283945] snd_ice1724 0001:00:04.0: unable to grab IRQ 0
[    6.283973] snd_ice1724: probe of 0001:00:04.0 failed with error -5