* [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
@ 2016-11-03 22:51 Liam Girdwood
2016-11-04 8:54 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2016-11-13 16:55 ` Patrick Lai
0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Liam Girdwood @ 2016-11-03 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: mengdong.lin, Lars-Peter Clausen, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Koul, Vinod, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick, Takashi Iwai,
Mark Brown, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent, Charles Keepax,
Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
Minutes below. Comments, corrections and omissions welcomed.
We are missing some links to some of the slides presented. Please reply with a link
if you have one.
Audio Mini Conference Minutes - Santa Fe 2016
=============================================
Present: Mark, Rakesh, Liam, Vinod, Mengdong, Pierre, Patrick, Takashi S,
Javilars, Takashi I, Eric, Dylan, Mauro, Shuah, Charles, Matthew, Lars, Sagar
and others.
Android USB Audio - Eric
========================
USB audio is becoming more important as analog jack can be removed. USB stack
is difficult to optimise for low power/latency audio (too many wake ups with
USB 1ms tick). Aim to add no_irq (no IRQ for each period) and mmap support in
USB 3.0 stack to improve power and latency.
USB playback and capture with synchronised start API is missing from stack/ALSA.
Some patches were posted for synchronised endpoint but never made it to the
list, Pierre is going to resend.
USB currently defines simple audio endpoints. Support is needed to define more
complex USB audio endpoints rather than just "playback" and "capture".
Sub 10ms latency (round trip ?) is difficult to achieve on USB due to stack and
drivers. Mmap may help reduce latency by removing buffer copies.
Inter Device Dependencies
=========================
Kernel Summit joined for this discussion. There is complexity between devices,
more than just a parent/child relationship for some devices making it difficult
to order probing and PM ops.
Rafael, has created patch set to solve dependences for PM ops in Gregs tree,
the patches could also be used for probing. The patches add an API to allow
device relationships to be established as a graph. This API supports non
parent/child relationships to and allows PM ops to run in a deterministic
sequence. Relationship dependency discovery needs to come from DT/ACPI and
will need standardised bindings.
Mark described the current audio workarounds where the machine driver specifies
relationships and deferred probe is used to manage the probing sequence.
Some people do not like the high number deferred probe messages in dmesg.
Relation graphs must be ordered so that cycles to do not exist.
Next steps are to use Rafaels patches for probe ordering.
AV Sync - Eric
===============
A few frame counters are 32 bit (compressed API) and should be 64 bit.
Vinod will update compressed API to 64 bit.
Timers should also consider boot time and suspend/resume time as it's currently
difficult to keep AV syn over suspend/resume cycles.
AV sync on TV's hacky atm, we need AV sync API in ALSA. Takashi noted this was
long time problem that needs solution. Some options for AV sync were pseudo
transport streams (like existing mpeg format) but these were difficult for
mmap(). Other devices had used runtime PLL updating with patches sent in the
past ?
Compressed API could be used to send transport stream for AV sync.
HDMI/DP glue to GFX - Vinod
===========================
Currently several interlaces exist to pass DP/HDMI events and information
between audio and GFX stacks/drivers. ARM devices using pdata interface,
i915 has another solution, BYT uses another interface. Needs to be consistent
for user space ELD notification, jack detection/mapping. Currently HDA drivers
have hack to assist userspace (PCM5).
There are also difficulties mapping PCMs, channels and jacks to multiple
HDMI/DP devices.
Tikashi and Vinod to investigate best solutions.
DP-MST - Vinod
===============
Jack notifications more difficult with MST (extra complexity). How do we map
multiple jacks from multiple monitors, disable unused pins when not rendering ?
The 5.1 use case for gaming has to split channels to multiple monitors.
Decision is that new devices would export topology to userpace so that userspace
know the jack, channel mappings.
Soundwire Support - Rakesh and Pierre
=====================================
Soundwire new hardware interface for audio devices. Needs new subsystem support
for soundwire master and slave devices. Hardik has posted initial RFC to the
list for review.
Rakesh presented slides . Link to the slides ?
Some people had reviewed the RFC. Some changes to strct device/driver usage
required to make it more like other subsystems upstream. There is also need
to deal with devices that can power off after or before enumeration. Some
confusion over the terminology used too, compared to other bus systems like I2C.
Master should be device and not driver. Top level feedback is that it does not
look like bus code.
There is also a need to consider objects in DT/ACPI. AR Vinod, to look at STIO.
Topology and UCM file deployment - Vinod, Mengdong, Liam
========================================================
Difficult to release and deploy topology/ucm updates with alsa-lib cadence.
Distros to be contacted for best deployment where cadence can be faster than
alsa-lib. Liam and Vinod to contact distro package maintainers.
UCM - Liam, Mengdong
====================
Which driver card name string to change, there are 3 - long, short and driver.
CRAS uses the string in the []. Not sure about PA.
Liam to create patch that includes machine name in card name string.
Mengdong has added #include and #define like support to topology. Mengdong
will port this to UCM too so that a library of codecs can be built up and
included by the machine ucm files. e.g.
Asus T100 UCM would include rt5640 codec and baytrail DSP UCM configs.
Tracepoint for audio - Lars, Takashi S
======================================
Lars and Takashi S have similar patchsets. Easy to make tooling for parsing
traceout. This could replace printk and snd_printk, but builds bigger binary.
Option to disable can be added to reduce size. Uses ftrace output and timestamp.
Used in the PCM operations. Patches are still WiP and will be posted as RFC when
ready.
Dropping Dice Driver - Takashi S
================================
Dice hardware has serious problems making it unusable. Takashi S to discuss with
Clemens regarding any potential work around for HW issue. If no work around is
found then it could be marked as broken or moved to staging ?
Sound Open Firmware - Liam
==========================
Liam introduced SOF and took QA. Liam is also working on an ELF executable
firmware image that can run on the developers host PC.
http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Firmware
Paravirtualisation of Audio Drivers - Rakesh
============================================
Safety critical systems have requirements to play safety critcal sounds (like
alarms, warnings) and regular non safety critical sound like media. Rakesh
proposed a Xen hypervisor method to guarantee the safety critical audio would
always take precedence over the non safety critical audio.
Xen would run a privileged OS (for safety critical) and unprivileged OS (for
non safety critical audio). A para virtualised audio driver would allow the
Unprivileged OS to play audio on the privileged OS.
Lars suggested Libvirt and KVM may make this task far easier and less restricted
than using Xen. Rakesh to investigate further.
Userspace driver for Firewire - Takashi S
=========================================
Need to represent mixers for some USB and FW devices in userspace. Why ?.
Possibility of using topology for userspace. Nobody keen on exposing kernel APIs
as userspavce ABIs. Possibility of looking at libvirt interfaces for userspace
drivers many similarities. Kernel component, already use FW sound card.
Mixer API not suitable, many bus so use control API.
ALSA Stream Configuration Domains - Lars
========================================
ALSA has powerful but complex system to configure and constrain stream
configurations at runtime but it does not scale well on modern ASoC based
sound devices with multiple components and DAIs.
Lars presented a solution that can break complex sound cards down to simple
domains where configuration can be set by userspace to exactly match each
use case. Userspace would also be able to read the configuration in each domain.
New APIs calls would be needed in alsa-lib to achieve this.
Lars also requested that ASoC become a first class citizen with ALSA since
most new sound cards are ASoC based. Proposal was accepted.
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-03 22:51 [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016 Liam Girdwood
@ 2016-11-04 8:54 ` Peter Ujfalusi
2016-11-04 13:59 ` Liam Girdwood
2016-11-13 16:55 ` Patrick Lai
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Peter Ujfalusi @ 2016-11-04 8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Liam Girdwood, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Koul, Vinod, Mark Brown,
Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick, Takashi Iwai,
Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent,
Charles Keepax, Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
Liam,
On 11/04/2016 12:51 AM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> Minutes below. Comments, corrections and omissions welcomed.
>
> We are missing some links to some of the slides presented. Please reply with a link
> if you have one.
Were there any discussion related to 'Move of ASoC clocking into the
clock API'? Any conclusions, plans?
--
Péter
> Audio Mini Conference Minutes - Santa Fe 2016
> =============================================
>
> Present: Mark, Rakesh, Liam, Vinod, Mengdong, Pierre, Patrick, Takashi S,
> Javilars, Takashi I, Eric, Dylan, Mauro, Shuah, Charles, Matthew, Lars, Sagar
> and others.
>
>
> Android USB Audio - Eric
> ========================
>
> USB audio is becoming more important as analog jack can be removed. USB stack
> is difficult to optimise for low power/latency audio (too many wake ups with
> USB 1ms tick). Aim to add no_irq (no IRQ for each period) and mmap support in
> USB 3.0 stack to improve power and latency.
>
> USB playback and capture with synchronised start API is missing from stack/ALSA.
> Some patches were posted for synchronised endpoint but never made it to the
> list, Pierre is going to resend.
>
> USB currently defines simple audio endpoints. Support is needed to define more
> complex USB audio endpoints rather than just "playback" and "capture".
>
> Sub 10ms latency (round trip ?) is difficult to achieve on USB due to stack and
> drivers. Mmap may help reduce latency by removing buffer copies.
>
>
> Inter Device Dependencies
> =========================
>
> Kernel Summit joined for this discussion. There is complexity between devices,
> more than just a parent/child relationship for some devices making it difficult
> to order probing and PM ops.
>
> Rafael, has created patch set to solve dependences for PM ops in Gregs tree,
> the patches could also be used for probing. The patches add an API to allow
> device relationships to be established as a graph. This API supports non
> parent/child relationships to and allows PM ops to run in a deterministic
> sequence. Relationship dependency discovery needs to come from DT/ACPI and
> will need standardised bindings.
>
> Mark described the current audio workarounds where the machine driver specifies
> relationships and deferred probe is used to manage the probing sequence.
> Some people do not like the high number deferred probe messages in dmesg.
>
> Relation graphs must be ordered so that cycles to do not exist.
>
> Next steps are to use Rafaels patches for probe ordering.
>
>
> AV Sync - Eric
> ===============
>
> A few frame counters are 32 bit (compressed API) and should be 64 bit.
> Vinod will update compressed API to 64 bit.
>
> Timers should also consider boot time and suspend/resume time as it's currently
> difficult to keep AV syn over suspend/resume cycles.
>
> AV sync on TV's hacky atm, we need AV sync API in ALSA. Takashi noted this was
> long time problem that needs solution. Some options for AV sync were pseudo
> transport streams (like existing mpeg format) but these were difficult for
> mmap(). Other devices had used runtime PLL updating with patches sent in the
> past ?
>
> Compressed API could be used to send transport stream for AV sync.
>
>
> HDMI/DP glue to GFX - Vinod
> ===========================
>
> Currently several interlaces exist to pass DP/HDMI events and information
> between audio and GFX stacks/drivers. ARM devices using pdata interface,
> i915 has another solution, BYT uses another interface. Needs to be consistent
> for user space ELD notification, jack detection/mapping. Currently HDA drivers
> have hack to assist userspace (PCM5).
>
> There are also difficulties mapping PCMs, channels and jacks to multiple
> HDMI/DP devices.
>
> Tikashi and Vinod to investigate best solutions.
>
>
> DP-MST - Vinod
> ===============
>
> Jack notifications more difficult with MST (extra complexity). How do we map
> multiple jacks from multiple monitors, disable unused pins when not rendering ?
> The 5.1 use case for gaming has to split channels to multiple monitors.
> Decision is that new devices would export topology to userpace so that userspace
> know the jack, channel mappings.
>
>
> Soundwire Support - Rakesh and Pierre
> =====================================
>
> Soundwire new hardware interface for audio devices. Needs new subsystem support
> for soundwire master and slave devices. Hardik has posted initial RFC to the
> list for review.
>
> Rakesh presented slides . Link to the slides ?
>
> Some people had reviewed the RFC. Some changes to strct device/driver usage
> required to make it more like other subsystems upstream. There is also need
> to deal with devices that can power off after or before enumeration. Some
> confusion over the terminology used too, compared to other bus systems like I2C.
> Master should be device and not driver. Top level feedback is that it does not
> look like bus code.
>
> There is also a need to consider objects in DT/ACPI. AR Vinod, to look at STIO.
>
>
> Topology and UCM file deployment - Vinod, Mengdong, Liam
> ========================================================
>
> Difficult to release and deploy topology/ucm updates with alsa-lib cadence.
> Distros to be contacted for best deployment where cadence can be faster than
> alsa-lib. Liam and Vinod to contact distro package maintainers.
>
>
> UCM - Liam, Mengdong
> ====================
>
> Which driver card name string to change, there are 3 - long, short and driver.
> CRAS uses the string in the []. Not sure about PA.
>
> Liam to create patch that includes machine name in card name string.
>
> Mengdong has added #include and #define like support to topology. Mengdong
> will port this to UCM too so that a library of codecs can be built up and
> included by the machine ucm files. e.g.
>
> Asus T100 UCM would include rt5640 codec and baytrail DSP UCM configs.
>
>
> Tracepoint for audio - Lars, Takashi S
> ======================================
>
> Lars and Takashi S have similar patchsets. Easy to make tooling for parsing
> traceout. This could replace printk and snd_printk, but builds bigger binary.
> Option to disable can be added to reduce size. Uses ftrace output and timestamp.
> Used in the PCM operations. Patches are still WiP and will be posted as RFC when
> ready.
>
>
> Dropping Dice Driver - Takashi S
> ================================
>
> Dice hardware has serious problems making it unusable. Takashi S to discuss with
> Clemens regarding any potential work around for HW issue. If no work around is
> found then it could be marked as broken or moved to staging ?
>
>
> Sound Open Firmware - Liam
> ==========================
>
> Liam introduced SOF and took QA. Liam is also working on an ELF executable
> firmware image that can run on the developers host PC.
>
> http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Firmware
>
>
> Paravirtualisation of Audio Drivers - Rakesh
> ============================================
>
> Safety critical systems have requirements to play safety critcal sounds (like
> alarms, warnings) and regular non safety critical sound like media. Rakesh
> proposed a Xen hypervisor method to guarantee the safety critical audio would
> always take precedence over the non safety critical audio.
>
> Xen would run a privileged OS (for safety critical) and unprivileged OS (for
> non safety critical audio). A para virtualised audio driver would allow the
> Unprivileged OS to play audio on the privileged OS.
>
> Lars suggested Libvirt and KVM may make this task far easier and less restricted
> than using Xen. Rakesh to investigate further.
>
>
> Userspace driver for Firewire - Takashi S
> =========================================
>
> Need to represent mixers for some USB and FW devices in userspace. Why ?.
> Possibility of using topology for userspace. Nobody keen on exposing kernel APIs
> as userspavce ABIs. Possibility of looking at libvirt interfaces for userspace
> drivers many similarities. Kernel component, already use FW sound card.
>
> Mixer API not suitable, many bus so use control API.
>
>
> ALSA Stream Configuration Domains - Lars
> ========================================
>
> ALSA has powerful but complex system to configure and constrain stream
> configurations at runtime but it does not scale well on modern ASoC based
> sound devices with multiple components and DAIs.
>
> Lars presented a solution that can break complex sound cards down to simple
> domains where configuration can be set by userspace to exactly match each
> use case. Userspace would also be able to read the configuration in each domain.
> New APIs calls would be needed in alsa-lib to achieve this.
>
> Lars also requested that ASoC become a first class citizen with ALSA since
> most new sound cards are ASoC based. Proposal was accepted.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Alsa-devel mailing list
> Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
>
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-04 8:54 ` Peter Ujfalusi
@ 2016-11-04 13:59 ` Liam Girdwood
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Liam Girdwood @ 2016-11-04 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Ujfalusi
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Koul, Vinod, Mark Brown, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick,
Takashi Iwai, Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent,
Charles Keepax, Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 10:54 +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Liam,
>
> On 11/04/2016 12:51 AM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > Minutes below. Comments, corrections and omissions welcomed.
> >
> > We are missing some links to some of the slides presented. Please reply with a link
> > if you have one.
>
> Were there any discussion related to 'Move of ASoC clocking into the
> clock API'? Any conclusions, plans?
>
Sorry, yes this was discussed. Mark had pointed out there was a locking
issue in the clk API preventing it being used in codecs (iirc, in I2C
devices). I think Mark has now discussed with the clock maintainers.
The plan was to use the API after the locking issue was resolved.
Thanks
Liam
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-03 22:51 [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016 Liam Girdwood
2016-11-04 8:54 ` Peter Ujfalusi
@ 2016-11-13 16:55 ` Patrick Lai
2016-11-14 14:08 ` Mark Brown
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Patrick Lai @ 2016-11-13 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Liam Girdwood, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Koul, Vinod, Mark Brown,
Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick, Takashi Iwai,
Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent,
Charles Keepax, Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
Thanks Liam for capturing workshop minutes and very happy to meet
everyone who attended the workshop.
Can people upload their slides? Is there a central place to upload the
slides? I am in process of preparing workshop presentation to Qualcomm
team members.
Thanks
Patrick
On 11/03/2016 03:51 PM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> Minutes below. Comments, corrections and omissions welcomed.
>
> We are missing some links to some of the slides presented. Please reply with a link
> if you have one.
>
> Audio Mini Conference Minutes - Santa Fe 2016
> =============================================
>
> Present: Mark, Rakesh, Liam, Vinod, Mengdong, Pierre, Patrick, Takashi S,
> Javilars, Takashi I, Eric, Dylan, Mauro, Shuah, Charles, Matthew, Lars, Sagar
> and others.
>
>
> Android USB Audio - Eric
> ========================
>
> USB audio is becoming more important as analog jack can be removed. USB stack
> is difficult to optimise for low power/latency audio (too many wake ups with
> USB 1ms tick). Aim to add no_irq (no IRQ for each period) and mmap support in
> USB 3.0 stack to improve power and latency.
>
> USB playback and capture with synchronised start API is missing from stack/ALSA.
> Some patches were posted for synchronised endpoint but never made it to the
> list, Pierre is going to resend.
>
> USB currently defines simple audio endpoints. Support is needed to define more
> complex USB audio endpoints rather than just "playback" and "capture".
>
> Sub 10ms latency (round trip ?) is difficult to achieve on USB due to stack and
> drivers. Mmap may help reduce latency by removing buffer copies.
>
>
> Inter Device Dependencies
> =========================
>
> Kernel Summit joined for this discussion. There is complexity between devices,
> more than just a parent/child relationship for some devices making it difficult
> to order probing and PM ops.
>
> Rafael, has created patch set to solve dependences for PM ops in Gregs tree,
> the patches could also be used for probing. The patches add an API to allow
> device relationships to be established as a graph. This API supports non
> parent/child relationships to and allows PM ops to run in a deterministic
> sequence. Relationship dependency discovery needs to come from DT/ACPI and
> will need standardised bindings.
>
> Mark described the current audio workarounds where the machine driver specifies
> relationships and deferred probe is used to manage the probing sequence.
> Some people do not like the high number deferred probe messages in dmesg.
>
> Relation graphs must be ordered so that cycles to do not exist.
>
> Next steps are to use Rafaels patches for probe ordering.
>
>
> AV Sync - Eric
> ===============
>
> A few frame counters are 32 bit (compressed API) and should be 64 bit.
> Vinod will update compressed API to 64 bit.
>
> Timers should also consider boot time and suspend/resume time as it's currently
> difficult to keep AV syn over suspend/resume cycles.
>
> AV sync on TV's hacky atm, we need AV sync API in ALSA. Takashi noted this was
> long time problem that needs solution. Some options for AV sync were pseudo
> transport streams (like existing mpeg format) but these were difficult for
> mmap(). Other devices had used runtime PLL updating with patches sent in the
> past ?
>
> Compressed API could be used to send transport stream for AV sync.
>
>
> HDMI/DP glue to GFX - Vinod
> ===========================
>
> Currently several interlaces exist to pass DP/HDMI events and information
> between audio and GFX stacks/drivers. ARM devices using pdata interface,
> i915 has another solution, BYT uses another interface. Needs to be consistent
> for user space ELD notification, jack detection/mapping. Currently HDA drivers
> have hack to assist userspace (PCM5).
>
> There are also difficulties mapping PCMs, channels and jacks to multiple
> HDMI/DP devices.
>
> Tikashi and Vinod to investigate best solutions.
>
>
> DP-MST - Vinod
> ===============
>
> Jack notifications more difficult with MST (extra complexity). How do we map
> multiple jacks from multiple monitors, disable unused pins when not rendering ?
> The 5.1 use case for gaming has to split channels to multiple monitors.
> Decision is that new devices would export topology to userpace so that userspace
> know the jack, channel mappings.
>
>
> Soundwire Support - Rakesh and Pierre
> =====================================
>
> Soundwire new hardware interface for audio devices. Needs new subsystem support
> for soundwire master and slave devices. Hardik has posted initial RFC to the
> list for review.
>
> Rakesh presented slides . Link to the slides ?
>
> Some people had reviewed the RFC. Some changes to strct device/driver usage
> required to make it more like other subsystems upstream. There is also need
> to deal with devices that can power off after or before enumeration. Some
> confusion over the terminology used too, compared to other bus systems like I2C.
> Master should be device and not driver. Top level feedback is that it does not
> look like bus code.
>
> There is also a need to consider objects in DT/ACPI. AR Vinod, to look at STIO.
>
>
> Topology and UCM file deployment - Vinod, Mengdong, Liam
> ========================================================
>
> Difficult to release and deploy topology/ucm updates with alsa-lib cadence.
> Distros to be contacted for best deployment where cadence can be faster than
> alsa-lib. Liam and Vinod to contact distro package maintainers.
>
>
> UCM - Liam, Mengdong
> ====================
>
> Which driver card name string to change, there are 3 - long, short and driver.
> CRAS uses the string in the []. Not sure about PA.
>
> Liam to create patch that includes machine name in card name string.
>
> Mengdong has added #include and #define like support to topology. Mengdong
> will port this to UCM too so that a library of codecs can be built up and
> included by the machine ucm files. e.g.
>
> Asus T100 UCM would include rt5640 codec and baytrail DSP UCM configs.
>
>
> Tracepoint for audio - Lars, Takashi S
> ======================================
>
> Lars and Takashi S have similar patchsets. Easy to make tooling for parsing
> traceout. This could replace printk and snd_printk, but builds bigger binary.
> Option to disable can be added to reduce size. Uses ftrace output and timestamp.
> Used in the PCM operations. Patches are still WiP and will be posted as RFC when
> ready.
>
>
> Dropping Dice Driver - Takashi S
> ================================
>
> Dice hardware has serious problems making it unusable. Takashi S to discuss with
> Clemens regarding any potential work around for HW issue. If no work around is
> found then it could be marked as broken or moved to staging ?
>
>
> Sound Open Firmware - Liam
> ==========================
>
> Liam introduced SOF and took QA. Liam is also working on an ELF executable
> firmware image that can run on the developers host PC.
>
> http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Firmware
>
>
> Paravirtualisation of Audio Drivers - Rakesh
> ============================================
>
> Safety critical systems have requirements to play safety critcal sounds (like
> alarms, warnings) and regular non safety critical sound like media. Rakesh
> proposed a Xen hypervisor method to guarantee the safety critical audio would
> always take precedence over the non safety critical audio.
>
> Xen would run a privileged OS (for safety critical) and unprivileged OS (for
> non safety critical audio). A para virtualised audio driver would allow the
> Unprivileged OS to play audio on the privileged OS.
>
> Lars suggested Libvirt and KVM may make this task far easier and less restricted
> than using Xen. Rakesh to investigate further.
>
>
> Userspace driver for Firewire - Takashi S
> =========================================
>
> Need to represent mixers for some USB and FW devices in userspace. Why ?.
> Possibility of using topology for userspace. Nobody keen on exposing kernel APIs
> as userspavce ABIs. Possibility of looking at libvirt interfaces for userspace
> drivers many similarities. Kernel component, already use FW sound card.
>
> Mixer API not suitable, many bus so use control API.
>
>
> ALSA Stream Configuration Domains - Lars
> ========================================
>
> ALSA has powerful but complex system to configure and constrain stream
> configurations at runtime but it does not scale well on modern ASoC based
> sound devices with multiple components and DAIs.
>
> Lars presented a solution that can break complex sound cards down to simple
> domains where configuration can be set by userspace to exactly match each
> use case. Userspace would also be able to read the configuration in each domain.
> New APIs calls would be needed in alsa-lib to achieve this.
>
> Lars also requested that ASoC become a first class citizen with ALSA since
> most new sound cards are ASoC based. Proposal was accepted.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Alsa-devel mailing list
> Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
>
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-13 16:55 ` Patrick Lai
@ 2016-11-14 14:08 ` Mark Brown
2016-11-14 23:03 ` Takashi Sakamoto
2016-11-15 3:14 ` Vinod Koul
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From: Mark Brown @ 2016-11-14 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Patrick Lai
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Koul, Vinod, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick, Liam Girdwood,
Takashi Iwai, Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent,
Charles Keepax, Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 08:55:59AM -0800, Patrick Lai wrote:
> Can people upload their slides? Is there a central place to upload the
> slides? I am in process of preparing workshop presentation to Qualcomm team
> members.
There's no central place for uploading slides - guess sending them in
e-mail in followup to the minutes is as good as anything?
Please don't top post, reply in line with needed context. This allows
readers to readily follow the flow of conversation and understand what
you are talking about and also helps ensure that everything in the
discussion is being addressed.
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-14 14:08 ` Mark Brown
@ 2016-11-14 23:03 ` Takashi Sakamoto
2016-11-16 16:23 ` Mark Brown
2016-11-15 3:14 ` Vinod Koul
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From: Takashi Sakamoto @ 2016-11-14 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Brown, Patrick Lai
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Koul, Vinod, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick, Liam Girdwood,
Takashi Iwai, Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent,
Charles Keepax, Dylan Reid
Mark,
On 2016年11月14日 23:08, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 08:55:59AM -0800, Patrick Lai wrote:
>
>> Can people upload their slides? Is there a central place to upload the
>> slides? I am in process of preparing workshop presentation to Qualcomm team
>> members.
>
> There's no central place for uploading slides - guess sending them in
> e-mail in followup to the minutes is as good as anything?
Let us upload our resources and add the minutes to plumbers' wiki page
you created?
http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016:audio
Regards
Takashi Sakamoto
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-14 23:03 ` Takashi Sakamoto
@ 2016-11-16 16:23 ` Mark Brown
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From: Mark Brown @ 2016-11-16 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Takashi Sakamoto
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Koul, Vinod, Patrick Lai, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick,
Liam Girdwood, Takashi Iwai, Lars-Peter Clausen,
Ughreja, Rakesh A, Eric Laurent, Charles Keepax, Dylan Reid
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 08:03:19AM +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> On 2016年11月14日 23:08, Mark Brown wrote:
> > There's no central place for uploading slides - guess sending them in
> > e-mail in followup to the minutes is as good as anything?
> Let us upload our resources and add the minutes to plumbers' wiki page you
> created?
> http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016:audio
Sure, seems sensible - we can always copy them over to the ALSA wiki if
things get set up there.
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* Re: [MINUTES] Linux Plumbers Audio Mini Conference - Santa Fe 2016
2016-11-14 14:08 ` Mark Brown
2016-11-14 23:03 ` Takashi Sakamoto
@ 2016-11-15 3:14 ` Vinod Koul
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From: Vinod Koul @ 2016-11-15 3:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Brown
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, mengdong.lin, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
Takashi Iwai, Patrick Lai, Pierre-Louis Bossart, Lai, Patrick,
Liam Girdwood, Lars-Peter Clausen, Ughreja, Rakesh A,
Eric Laurent, Charles Keepax, Takashi Sakamoto, Dylan Reid
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:08:30PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 08:55:59AM -0800, Patrick Lai wrote:
>
> > Can people upload their slides? Is there a central place to upload the
> > slides? I am in process of preparing workshop presentation to Qualcomm team
> > members.
>
> There's no central place for uploading slides - guess sending them in
> e-mail in followup to the minutes is as good as anything?
Thats something we did last year as well and then I think Jaroslav uploaded
them to alsa-project wiki.
Maybe we should start adding each year notes in wiki for future references
as well
--
~Vinod
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