How to support software mixing on QUALCOMM 72XX without mmap?

How to support software mixing on QUALCOMM 72XX without mmap?

[Berg.Tian]

Hello,guys.
     I'm porting ASLA1.0.23 to qualcomm 72xx base on ARM11.
     The first instance,"aplay test.wav", works now, but the second
instance should fail with "device busy" error message.
     I have tried plug dmix and dshare "aply -D plug:mycard
test.wav", but met a fail again for the soc chip doesn't support mmap.
Of course,pcm_mycard is defined in /etc/asound.conf.
     In my pc ,both above cmds work well .

     Though,the document shows that:
        NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup
dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards
which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for
digital outputs.
     My questions are:
         1)Is  software mixing  implemented in ALSA Driver,or in ALSA LIB?
         2)What could I do to make the software mixing work? Is there
any special configure which need to adjust?

     And when testing on pc whth HD audio, I noticed that
      A)when aplay instances runs WITHOUT dmix, the result of"cat
/etc/one_of_my_aplay_pid/maps" should like:
                     ...
                     b331d000-b731e000 rw-s 00000000 00:15 862346
/dev/shm/pulse-shm-2882420837
                     ...
     B)when aplay instances runs  WITH dmix,the result is:
                  ...
                  b7511000-b7519000 rw-s 00000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                  b7519000-b751a000 rw-s 81000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                  b751a000-b751b000 r--s 80000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                  ...
     So,the third question:
         3) From A) and B),can I make a result that the mmap feacture
is not necessary for the buildin software mixing ?

     Expect your help,please

    berg

How to support software mixing on QUALCOMM 72XX without mmap?

[Berg]

Hello,guys.
    I'm porting ASLA1.0.23 to qualcomm 72xx base on ARM11.
    The first instance,"aplay test.wav", works now, but the second
instance should fail with "device busy" error message.
    I have tried plug dmix and dshare "aply -D plug:mycard
test.wav", but met a fail again for the soc chip doesn't support mmap.
Of course,pcm_mycard is defined in /etc/asound.conf.
    In my pc ,both above cmds work well .

    Though,the document shows that:
       NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup
dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards
which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for
digital outputs.
    My questions are:
        1)Is  software mixing  implemented in ALSA Driver,or in ALSA LIB?
        2)What could I do to make the software mixing work? Is there
any special configure which need to adjust?

    And when testing on pc whth HD audio, I noticed that
     A)when aplay instances runs WITHOUT dmix, the result of"cat
/etc/one_of_my_aplay_pid/maps" should like:
                    ...
                    b331d000-b731e000 rw-s 00000000 00:15 862346
/dev/shm/pulse-shm-2882420837
                    ...
    B)when aplay instances runs  WITH dmix,the result is:
                 ...
                 b7511000-b7519000 rw-s 00000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                 b7519000-b751a000 rw-s 81000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                 b751a000-b751b000 r--s 80000000 00:0f 4560
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
                 ...
    So,the third question:
        3) From A) and B),can I make a result that the mmap feacture
is not necessary for the buildin software mixing ?

    Expect your help,please

   berg

Re: How to support software mixing on QUALCOMM 72XX without mmap?

[GNUtoo]

On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 00:54 +0800, Berg wrote:
> Hello,guys.
>     I'm porting ASLA1.0.23 to qualcomm 72xx base on ARM11.
>     The first instance,"aplay test.wav", works now, but the second
> instance should fail with "device busy" error message.
>     I have tried plug dmix and dshare "aply -D plug:mycard
> test.wav", but met a fail again for the soc chip doesn't support mmap.
> Of course,pcm_mycard is defined in /etc/asound.conf.
>     In my pc ,both above cmds work well .
> 
>     Though,the document shows that:
>        NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup
> dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards
> which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for
> digital outputs.
>     My questions are:
>         1)Is  software mixing  implemented in ALSA Driver,or in ALSA LIB?
>         2)What could I do to make the software mixing work? Is there
> any special configure which need to adjust?
> 
>     And when testing on pc whth HD audio, I noticed that
>      A)when aplay instances runs WITHOUT dmix, the result of"cat
> /etc/one_of_my_aplay_pid/maps" should like:
>                     ...
>                     b331d000-b731e000 rw-s 00000000 00:15 862346
> /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2882420837
>                     ...
>     B)when aplay instances runs  WITH dmix,the result is:
>                  ...
>                  b7511000-b7519000 rw-s 00000000 00:0f 4560
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>                  b7519000-b751a000 rw-s 81000000 00:0f 4560
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>                  b751a000-b751b000 r--s 80000000 00:0f 4560
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
>                  ...
>     So,the third question:
>         3) From A) and B),can I make a result that the mmap feacture
> is not necessary for the buildin software mixing ?
> 
>     Expect your help,please
> 
>    berg
hi, on which driver do you base your work? codeaurora?
I've a driver that works with aplay and mplayer but that has some minor
buffer underrun(I need some time to fix that),it works fine for music
but not for videos.
look inside http://gitorious.org/htc-msm-2-6-32/leviathan-incoming
basically the fix for making mplayer work(the fix was suggested by by
Thingol on IRC,and the debugging/explaining of the problem was done by
me) is in  the following commit:
deabc32225429b3c0db44f7e62d95d0d2525290b

Denis.

Re: How to support software mixing on QUALCOMM 72XX without mmap?

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:54:17AM +0800, Berg wrote:

>     I'm porting ASLA1.0.23 to qualcomm 72xx base on ARM11.

You might want to coordinate your efforts with the other people working
on Qualcomm chipsets.  I've CCed in Brian Swetland who I know is one
such person but there were a few others.

>     The first instance,"aplay test.wav", works now, but the second
> instance should fail with "device busy" error message.
>     I have tried plug dmix and dshare "aply -D plug:mycard
> test.wav", but met a fail again for the soc chip doesn't support mmap.
> Of course,pcm_mycard is defined in /etc/asound.conf.

I'd generally suggest PulseAudio over dmix for software mixing.

>     My questions are:
>         1)Is  software mixing  implemented in ALSA Driver,or in ALSA LIB?

It's implemented in user space, via an ALSA library plugin.