Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:54:43AM +0000, Martin Habets wrote:

> It seems to me we can already get rid of sound/oss/dmasound now.
> I cannot find anything refering to it anymore, and the ALSA powermac
> driver is being maintained.

You are correct that I forgot to add the dmasound drivers to my list, 
but I don't think we can get rid of all of them since I doubt the ALSA 
powermac driver was able to drive m68k hardware.

Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?

> Martin

TIA
Adrian

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Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Olaf Hering]

 On Fri, Jan 20, Adrian Bunk wrote:

 
> Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?

It doesnt. Some tumbler models work only after one plug/unplug cycle of
the headphone. early powerbooks report/handle the mute settings
incorrectly. there are likely more bugs.

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Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:54:43AM +0000, Martin Habets wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me we can already get rid of sound/oss/dmasound now.
> > I cannot find anything refering to it anymore, and the ALSA powermac
> > driver is being maintained.
> 
> You are correct that I forgot to add the dmasound drivers to my list, 
> but I don't think we can get rid of all of them since I doubt the ALSA 
> powermac driver was able to drive m68k hardware.
> 
> Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?

It should...

Ben.

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 22:29 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Fri, Jan 20, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
>  
> > Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> > SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?
> 
> It doesnt. Some tumbler models work only after one plug/unplug cycle of
> the headphone. early powerbooks report/handle the mute settings
> incorrectly. there are likely more bugs.

Interesting... Ben Collins hacked something to have Toonie work as a
"default" driver for non supported machine and saw that problem too, I
think he fixes it, I'll check with him what's up there and if his fix
applied to tumbler.c as well.

Ben.

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Ben Collins]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:16 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 22:29 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >  On Fri, Jan 20, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > > Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> > > SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?
> > 
> > It doesnt. Some tumbler models work only after one plug/unplug cycle of
> > the headphone. early powerbooks report/handle the mute settings
> > incorrectly. there are likely more bugs.
> 
> Interesting... Ben Collins hacked something to have Toonie work as a
> "default" driver for non supported machine and saw that problem too, I
> think he fixes it, I'll check with him what's up there and if his fix
> applied to tumbler.c as well.

My "fix" was basically the result of converting to the platform
functions. It's hit or miss whether this works with tumbler too.

You can try the Ubuntu kernel packages (they can be unpacked and used on
non Ubuntu systems pretty easily) to see if it works for you. Tumbler
platform function conversion isn't even tested, so I'd be happy to hear
any feedback.

-- 
Ben Collins
Kernel Developer - Ubuntu Linux

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:22:10 -0500,
Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:16 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 22:29 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > >  On Fri, Jan 20, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > > Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> > > > SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?
> > > 
> > > It doesnt. Some tumbler models work only after one plug/unplug cycle of
> > > the headphone. early powerbooks report/handle the mute settings
> > > incorrectly. there are likely more bugs.
> > 
> > Interesting... Ben Collins hacked something to have Toonie work as a
> > "default" driver for non supported machine and saw that problem too, I
> > think he fixes it, I'll check with him what's up there and if his fix
> > applied to tumbler.c as well.
> 
> My "fix" was basically the result of converting to the platform
> functions. It's hit or miss whether this works with tumbler too.
> 
> You can try the Ubuntu kernel packages (they can be unpacked and used on
> non Ubuntu systems pretty easily) to see if it works for you. Tumbler
> platform function conversion isn't even tested, so I'd be happy to hear
> any feedback.

Don't forget to forward your patches to alsa-devel or me ;)


thanks,

Takashi

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Ben Collins]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:20 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > > Can someone from the ppc developers drop me a small note whether 
> > > > > SND_POWERMAC completely replaces DMASOUND_PMAC?
> > > > 
> > > > It doesnt. Some tumbler models work only after one plug/unplug cycle of
> > > > the headphone. early powerbooks report/handle the mute settings
> > > > incorrectly. there are likely more bugs.
> > > 
> > > Interesting... Ben Collins hacked something to have Toonie work as a
> > > "default" driver for non supported machine and saw that problem too, I
> > > think he fixes it, I'll check with him what's up there and if his fix
> > > applied to tumbler.c as well.
> > 
> > My "fix" was basically the result of converting to the platform
> > functions. It's hit or miss whether this works with tumbler too.
> > 
> > You can try the Ubuntu kernel packages (they can be unpacked and used on
> > non Ubuntu systems pretty easily) to see if it works for you. Tumbler
> > platform function conversion isn't even tested, so I'd be happy to hear
> > any feedback.
> 
> Don't forget to forward your patches to alsa-devel or me ;)

I'm passing everything through to BenH, especially since it's all using
functions new in his ppc tree.

Update on this "fix", it worked only because platform function
interrupts weren't enabled. Now that they are, it's back to the same old
thing.

At least that's a clue, though.

-- 
Ben Collins
Kernel Developer - Ubuntu Linux