[alsa-devel] [PATCH 19/19] ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Set card long_name based on quirks

Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com
Thu May 10 19:46:30 CEST 2018


On 5/10/18 10:48 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10-05-18 17:00, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> On 5/10/18 5:27 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 08-05-18 20:35, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>>> On 5/8/18 10:36 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> Many X86 devices using a BYT SoC + RT5640 codec are cheap devices with
>>>>> generic DMI strings, causing snd_soc_set_dmi_name() to fail to set a
>>>>> long_name, making it impossible for userspace to have a correct UCM
>>>>> profile which only uses inputs / outputs which are actually hooked up
>>>>> on the device.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our quirks already specify which input the internal mic is 
>>>>> connected to
>>>>> and if a single (mono) speaker is used or if the device has stereo
>>>>> speakers.
>>>>>
>>>>> This commit sets a long_name based on the quirks so that userspace can
>>>>> have UCM profiles doing the right thing based on the long_name.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't this going to be complicated to manage for UCM? Just with this 
>>>> patch alone, you'd need 8 UCM files to cover all the combinations. 
>>>> 16 if you add the 'sof-' prefix.
>>>>
>>>> seems like UCM should become more 'dynamic' and get quirk 
>>>> information somehow (sysfs?) to enable/disable endpoints rather than 
>>>> rely on name encoding to select the right profile?
>>>
>>> I agree that this is not ideal, but this is an improvement from the
>>> current state where we would need 1 UCM profile per board
>>> (assuming valid DMI data and thus a proper long-name being set),
>>> 6 profiles (dmic2 is not used anywhere sofar) is a whole lot easier
>>> to manage then 1 profile per board. So as said I believe this is
>>> a step in the right direction.
>>>
>>> And looking at the foreseeable future I simply don't see any of us
>>> having the time to implement an ideal solution for this. I would
>>> really like for end users to be able to run the latest upstream
>>> kernel + alsa-lib and have things just work, before this hardware
>>> becomes obsolete. I know that no-one having time to work on reworking
>>> UCM to make it more dynamic is not the best of arguments but it
>>> is something to take into consideration.
>>>
>>> Thinking more about this on the alsa-lib / UCM profile side we
>>> could have something like this:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/alsa/ucm/bytcr-rt5640-mono-spk-in1-mic/bytcr-rt5640-mono-spk-in1-mic.conf: 
>>>
>>>
>>> SectionUseCase."HiFi" {
>>>          File "../bytcr-rt5640/Generic.conf"
>>>      File "../bytcr-rt5640/MonoSpeaker.conf"
>>>      File "../bytcr-rt5640/In1Mic.conf"
>>>          Comment "Play HiFi quality Music"
>>> }
>>>
>>> SectionDefaults [
>>>          cdev "hw:bytcrrt5640"
>>> ]
>>>
>>> The only problem I can see with that is that the "ConflictingDevice"
>>> sections for the various inputs / outputs then would refer to not
>>> present SectionDevice sections. I have not tested this suggestion yet,
>>> but I'm willing to write an alsa-lib patch to ignore non present
>>> ConflictingDevice references, to make my suggestion work.
>>>
>>> I think doing things this way, thus avoiding the need to copy and
>>> paste a whole lot of UCM code for the 6 profiles it will not be
>>> a problem to maintain 6 profiles, as we're really just maintaining
>>> 6 config snippets such as the above example and only one complete
>>> profile.
>>>
>>> Would the solution I outlined above be acceptable to you?
>>
>> The includes and disabling conflicting devices that aren't present 
>> make sense. I have another issue though: for SOF integration I already 
>> prepared a set of files, which are mostly identical to the regular 
>> ones except that the platform-side mixer controls are removed (or 
>> different) and the name of the card/device is different (sof- prefix). 
>> See on github.
> 
> Hmm, it might make sense to split the includes in platform and codec 
> includes, so
> to pick my example again we would get:
> 
> /usr/share/alsa/ucm/bytcr-rt5640-mono-spk-in1-mic/bytcr-rt5640-mono-spk-in1-mic.conf: 
> 
> 
> SectionUseCase."HiFi" {
>      SectionVerb {
>           EnableSequence [
>               cdev "hw:bytcrrt5640"
> 
>               File "../bytcr-rt5640/EnableSeq.conf" # This contains the 
> platform mixer settings
>               File "../rt5640/EnableSeq.conf"
>           ]
> 
>           DisableSequence [
>           ]
> 
>           Value {
>               PlaybackPCM "hw:bytcrrt5640"
>               CapturePCM "hw:bytcrrt5640"
>           }
>        }
> 
>        File "../rt5640/Headset.conf"
>        File "../rt5640/MonoSpeaker.conf"
>        File "../rt5640/In1Mic.conf"
>        Comment "Play HiFi quality Music"
> }
> 
> SectionDefaults [
>        cdev "hw:bytcrrt5640"
> ]
> 
> And then for sof you would just need to
> offer a sof-rt5640/EnableSeq.conf, or
> maybe even leave it out completely.
> 
> And we might also be able to merge the platform
> enable sequences into a generic:
> 
> bytcr/EnableSeq.conf
> 
> I think that will at least fly for bytcr-rt5640 and
> butcr-rt5651, leading us being able to remove more
> duplicated UCM config.
> 
> How does this sound?

splitting platform and codec sides is a good idea (and something that 
was done by removing all platform mixer settings from the HiFi files)

the problem remains that we have all these cdev strings that are 
hard-codec with a card name. Same when the match happens based on a DMI 
string, how would I know which of the platform settings to apply without 
querying what the platform driver is?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> I was nearly ready to submit all those files to the new repository, I 
>> wasn't aware of your work so now need to figure out how to reuse all 
>> this once we upstream SOF (any time now if I look at Liam's patches).
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Note that if we ever encounter the need for a special UCM profile for
>>>>> some device we can add a quirk to set a specific long_name for the
>>>>> device,
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c | 9 +++++++++
>>>>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c 
>>>>> b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c
>>>>> index cfc520200214..9a1204dcdbc6 100644
>>>>> --- a/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c
>>>>> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/boards/bytcr_rt5640.c
>>>>> @@ -929,6 +929,7 @@ static struct snd_soc_dai_link 
>>>>> byt_rt5640_dais[] = {
>>>>>   static char byt_rt5640_codec_name[SND_ACPI_I2C_ID_LEN];
>>>>>   static char byt_rt5640_codec_aif_name[12]; /*  = 
>>>>> "rt5640-aif[1|2]" */
>>>>>   static char byt_rt5640_cpu_dai_name[10]; /*  = "ssp[0|2]-port" */
>>>>> +static char byt_rt5640_long_name[40]; /* = 
>>>>> "bytcr-rt5640-*-spk-*-mic" */
>>>>>   static int byt_rt5640_suspend(struct snd_soc_card *card)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> @@ -1000,6 +1001,7 @@ struct acpi_chan_package {   /* ACPICA seems 
>>>>> to require 64 bit integers */
>>>>>   static int snd_byt_rt5640_mc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>   {
>>>>> +    const char * const map_name[] = { "dmic1", "dmic2", "in1", 
>>>>> "in3" };
>>>>>       const struct dmi_system_id *dmi_id;
>>>>>       struct byt_rt5640_private *priv;
>>>>>       struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach;
>>>>> @@ -1163,6 +1165,13 @@ static int snd_byt_rt5640_mc_probe(struct 
>>>>> platform_device *pdev)
>>>>>           }
>>>>>       }
>>>>> +    snprintf(byt_rt5640_long_name, sizeof(byt_rt5640_long_name),
>>>>> +         "bytcr-rt5640-%s-spk-%s-mic",
>>>>> +         (byt_rt5640_quirk & BYT_RT5640_MONO_SPEAKER) ?
>>>>> +            "mono" : "stereo",
>>>>> +         map_name[BYT_RT5640_MAP(byt_rt5640_quirk)]);
>>>>> +    byt_rt5640_card.long_name = byt_rt5640_long_name;
>>>>> +
>>>>>       ret_val = devm_snd_soc_register_card(&pdev->dev, 
>>>>> &byt_rt5640_card);
>>>>>       if (ret_val) {
>>>>>
>>>>
>>



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