The following is the original document of Rainer's patch that the
current maya44 code based on. Some contents might be obsoleted, but I
keep here as reference -- tiwai
Feb 14, 2008
Rainer Zimmermann <mail@lightshed.de>
STATE OF DEVELOPMENT
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This driver is being developed on the initiative of Piotr Makowski (oponek@gmail.com) and financed by Lars Bergmann.
Development is carried out by Rainer Zimmermann (mail@lightshed.de).
ESI provided a sample Maya44 card for the development work.
However, unfortunately it has turned out difficult to get detailed programming information, so I (Rainer Zimmermann) had to find out some card-specific information by experiment and conjecture. Some information (in particular, several GPIO bits) is still missing.
This is the first testing version of the Maya44 driver released to the alsa-devel mailing list (Feb 5, 2008).
The following functions work, as tested by Rainer Zimmermann and Piotr Makowski:
- playback and capture at all sampling rates
- input/output level
- crossmixing
- line/mic switch
- phantom power switch
- analogue monitor a.k.a bypass
The following functions *should* work, but are not fully tested:
- Channel 3+4 analogue - S/PDIF input switching
- S/PDIF output
- all inputs/outputs on the M/IO/DIO extension card
- internal/external clock selection
*In particular, we would appreciate testing of these functions by anyone who has access to an M/IO/DIO extension card.*
Things that do not seem to work:
- The level meters ("multi track") in 'alsamixer' do not seem to react to signals in (if this is a bug, it would probably be in the existing ICE1724 code).
- Ardour 2.1 seems to work only via JACK, not using ALSA directly or via OSS. This still needs to be tracked down.
DRIVER DETAILS
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the following files were added:
* pci/ice1724/maya44.c - Maya44 specific code
* pci/ice1724/maya44.h
* pci/ice1724/ice1724.patch
* pci/ice1724/ice1724.h.patch - PROPOSED patch to ice1724.h (see SAMPLING RATES)
* i2c/other/wm8776.c - low-level access routines for Wolfson WM8776 codecs
* include/wm8776.h
Note that the wm8776.c code is meant to be card-independent and does not actually register the codec with the ALSA infrastructure.
This is done in maya44.c, mainly because some of the WM8776 controls are used in Maya44-specific ways, and should be named appropriately.
the following files were created in pci/ice1724, simply #including the corresponding file from the alsa-kernel tree:
* wtm.h
* vt1720_mobo.h
* revo.h
* prodigy192.h
* pontis.h
* phase.h
* maya44.h
* juli.h
* aureon.h
* amp.h
* envy24ht.h
* se.h
* prodigy_hifi.h
*I hope this is the correct way to do things.*
SAMPLING RATES
==============
The Maya44 card (or more exactly, the Wolfson WM8776 codecs) allow a maximum sampling rate of 192 kHz for playback and 92 kHz for capture.
As the ICE1724 chip only allows one global sampling rate, this is handled as follows:
* setting the sampling rate on any open PCM device on the maya44 card will always set the *global* sampling rate for all playback and capture channels.
* In the current state of the driver, setting rates of up to 192 kHz is permitted even for capture devices.
*AVOID CAPTURING AT RATES ABOVE 96kHz*, even though it may appear to work. The codec cannot actually capture at such rates, meaning poor quality.
I propose some additional code for limiting the sampling rate when setting on a capture pcm device. However because of the global sampling rate, this logic would be somewhat problematic.
The proposed code (currently deactivated) is in ice1712.h.patch, ice1724.c and maya44.c (in pci/ice1712).
SOUND DEVICES
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PCM devices correspond to inputs/outputs as follows (assuming Maya44 is card #0):
* hw:0,0 input - stereo, analog input 1+2
* hw:0,0 output - stereo, analog output 1+2
* hw:0,1 input - stereo, analog input 3+4 OR S/PDIF input