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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: Allow drivers to specify how many bits are significant on a DAI
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:59:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117185953.GN2944@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F15C331.1020701@ti.com>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:

> >> Yeah, but it is not correct. If it does not know this we have 8bit
> >> 'latency' in gain control. Pulse can change the gain which will have no
> >> effect.

> > Which will have the same overall effect as if it doesn't do anything
> > based on knowing the resolution.

> But we still 'loose' 8bits. It might be not a big loss at the end when
> PA for example applies the gain, but for sure we will loose resolution
> (8bit worth).

Whereas if you do the gain to the lower resolution you'll discard the
same amount of information...

> My only problem is to say this to application: "out of 8/16bit you
> should use 24msb". AFAIK this is the meaning of the constraint. This
> constraint makes sense for 32bit samples: "out of 32bit you should use
> 24msb".

Well, like I say I don't see this as a problem and have no intention of
writing any code to handle that myself.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-16 18:41 [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: Allow drivers to specify how many bits are significant on a DAI Mark Brown
2012-01-16 18:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: 24 bits are significant on the WM8996 audio interfaces Mark Brown
2012-01-16 22:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: Allow drivers to specify how many bits are significant on a DAI Girdwood, Liam
2012-01-16 22:42   ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17  8:56     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17  8:55 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 11:38   ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17 13:06     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 13:19       ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17 14:18         ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 14:56           ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17 16:08             ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 16:44               ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17 17:55                 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 18:17                   ` Mark Brown
2012-01-17 18:51                     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-01-17 18:59                       ` Mark Brown [this message]

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