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Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:29:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 14:29:32 +0100 From: Stephan Gerhold To: Konrad Dybcio Cc: Bjorn Andersson , Srinivas Kandagatla , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Konrad Dybcio , Rob Herring , Conor Dooley , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Abel Vesa , Johan Hovold Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: x1e80100-crd: Drop duplicate DMIC supplies Message-ID: References: <20241203-x1e80100-va-mic-bias-v1-0-0dfd4d9b492c@linaro.org> <20241203-x1e80100-va-mic-bias-v1-2-0dfd4d9b492c@linaro.org> <6vfrlwir6sfommhn3met6wnjm76lnnxw4rdwzq75b7lzcy4jep@2cbcfvb3tvr2> <0f9e456b-cd54-4496-a2d2-795aae744385@oss.qualcomm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0f9e456b-cd54-4496-a2d2-795aae744385@oss.qualcomm.com> On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 01:57:17PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote: > On 9.01.2025 10:32 AM, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 05:07:47PM -0600, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 07:46:28PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > >>> On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 06:11:47PM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote: > >>>> On 4.12.2024 9:33 AM, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 08:20:15AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >>>>>> On 03/12/2024 18:44, Stephan Gerhold wrote: > >>>>>>> The WCD938x codec provides two controls for each of the MIC_BIASn outputs: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> - "MIC BIASn" enables an internal regulator to generate the output > >>>>>>> with a configurable voltage (qcom,micbiasN-microvolt). > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> - "VA MIC BIASn" enables "pull-up mode" that bypasses the internal > >>>>>>> regulator and directly outputs fixed 1.8V from the VDD_PX pin. > >>>>>>> This is intended for low-power VA (voice activation) use cases. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> The audio-routing setup for the X1E80100 CRD currently specifies both > >>>>>>> as power supplies for the DMICs, but only one of them can be active > >>>>>>> at the same time. In practice, only the internal regulator is used > >>>>>>> with the current setup because the driver prefers it over pull-up mode. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Make this more clear by dropping the redundant routes to the pull-up > >>>>>>> "VA MIC BIASn" supply. There is no functional difference except that we > >>>>>>> skip briefly switching to pull-up mode when shutting down the microphone. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Fixes: 4442a67eedc1 ("arm64: dts: qcom: x1e80100-crd: add sound card") > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If there is no functional difference and this is just redundant, then > >>>>>> there is nothing to fix, so drop the tag. But the point is that users > >>>>>> might want the low-power VA. You claim they don't want... sure, I am > >>>>>> fine with that but there is nothing to fix in such case. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> The fix here is that two mutually exclusive power supplies for the DMIC > >>>>> are specified in the device tree. You can only have one of them active > >>>>> at the same time. The Linux driver handles that gracefully, but the > >>>>> device tree is still wrong and IMO deserves a fixes tag. > >>>>> > >>>>> The functional difference is that we skip briefly switching to pull-up > >>>>> mode when shutting down the microphone. Users won't notice that, but > >>>>> it's not the intended behavior. > >>>>> > >>>>> I don't claim that users don't want to switch to the low-power pull-up > >>>>> mode (VA MIC BIASn). However, we would need a different mechanism to > >>>>> give them the option to switch at runtime. "audio-routing" just > >>>>> specifies static routes, so the current description does not allow > >>>>> switching between the two modes either. > >>>> > >>>> Is there no existing mechanism to alter this at runtime? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I don't think so... Since it's currently exposed as two separate DAPM > >>> supplies (instead of a mux or similar) you can only choose between one > >>> of them in the static routes specified by "audio-routing" in the DT. > >>> > >>> I tried looking at how downstream handles this, but this left me even > >>> more confused than I was before. :-) On CRD we currently have the > >>> following routes in DT: > >>> > >>> "VA DMIC0", "MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC1", "MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC2", "MIC BIAS1", > >>> "VA DMIC3", "MIC BIAS1", > >>> "VA DMIC0", "VA MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC1", "VA MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC2", "VA MIC BIAS1", > >>> "VA DMIC3", "VA MIC BIAS1", > >>> > >>> MIC BIAS and VA MIC BIAS are mutually exclusive, so this is not correct. > >>> But if you look at e.g. SM8550 downstream they have: > >>> > >>> "TX DMIC0", "MIC BIAS3", > >>> "TX DMIC1", "MIC BIAS3", > >>> "TX DMIC2", "MIC BIAS1", > >>> "TX DMIC3", "MIC BIAS1", > >>> "VA DMIC0", "VA MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC1", "VA MIC BIAS3", > >>> "VA DMIC2", "VA MIC BIAS1", > >>> "VA DMIC3", "VA MIC BIAS1"; > >>> > >>> Note the TX DMIC vs VA DMIC. So they specify one of the supplies for the > >>> TX macro DMIC, and the low-power one for the VA macro DMIC. That would > >>> be fine. > >>> > >>> Now the question is: If we can use the DMIC through both the TX and the > >>> VA macro, and we're not doing voice activation, why are we using the VA > >>> macro in the first place? > >>> > >>> @Srini: Do you remember why? > >>> > >> > >> What's the verdict regarding this? > >> > > > > We started discussing this, but did not come to a conclusion yet if we > > should be recording from the DMICs using the TX macro instead of the VA > > macro. > > > > The patch I submitted is still valid though, independent of that > > question. Since we're not doing voice activation we want to have the > > "full quality" MIC BIAS supply, not the low-power one. > > Can/should we discuss a new sound API to make this toggleable? > > Do these microphones physically connect to muxable inputs, or does this > depend on board wiring? > The WCD938x codec has 4 MIC_BIAS output pins that are typically used as power supply for microphones. Inside the codec there is an option to drive these output pins in one of two modes: 1. Internal regulator to generate the output with a configurable voltage (qcom,micbiasN-microvolt). Exposed as "MIC BIASn" supply in the Linux driver. 2. "Pull-up mode" that bypasses the internal regulator and directly outputs fixed 1.8V from the VDD_PX pin. Exposed as "VA MIC BIASn" supply in the Linux driver. The board-specific part here is only which microphone is wired to which MIC BIAS pin (e.g. DMIC0 -> MIC BIAS3, DMIC2 -> MIC BIAS1 etc). Both options will work if the microphone can operate at 1.8V. In that case, I think generally we want (1) for normal audio use cases and (2) for low-power use cases (like "voice activation"). Apparently the same applies for the "macro" to use. TX macro should be used for normal audio, and VA macro only for low-power use cases. With that there is a clear mapping: - TX macro DMICs -> full power "MIC BIAS" supply - VA macro DMICs -> low-power "VA MIC BIAS" supply I don't see why someone would want to change this mapping, so I don't think it's worth making this user configurable. Given that we're currently using the VA macro for normal audio, we should describe VA macro DMICs -> full power "MIC BIAS" supply for now and ideally migrate to using the TX macro later. Thanks, Stephan