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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Implementing sync start
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:57:59 +0200
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Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Clemens Ladisch<clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:
>> There is no common code for the two substreams.
>> Is your hardware actually capable of starting them at exactly the same
>> time?
> 
> Sync start is working. This is in the loop and starts the streams:
>    bcom_enable(s->bcom_task);
> s is set to two different values in the loop.

But you are calling bcom_enable() twice, once for each stream.  The same
would happen if you didn't implement sync start and let ALSA handle the
linked streams.

Sync start/stop is intended for hardware that can actually start two
streams at _exactly_ the same time, by, e.g., writing a value with two
bits set to a register.

> I'm having problems with the drain error on stop.
> ALSA sound/core/pcm_native.c:1499: playback drain error (DMA or IRQ trouble?)

ALSA did not get the snd_pcm_period_elapsed() call (or the correct
pointer value) for the last samples.


HTH
Clemens