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Ariff Abdullah
164e1f20ec - Add a way to change filter oversampling factor through
FEEDER_RATE_PRESET "OVERSAMPLING_FACTOR:X .. .." where
  X = log2(oversampling factor).

- Lower down default filter oversampling factor from 128
  (log2 = 7) to 32 (log2 = 5), saving worth of 80 Kb.
  The use of better polynomial interpolator will raise
  its conversion quality/accuracy to match (or slightly
  better) with previous settings.

- Bump driver version.
2009-06-15 04:31:34 +00:00
Ariff Abdullah
90da2b2859 Sound Mega-commit. Expect further cleanup until code freeze.
For a slightly thorough explaination, please refer to
	[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html .

Summary of changes includes:

1 Volume Per-Channel (vpc).  Provides private / standalone volume control
  unique per-stream pcm channel without touching master volume / pcm.
  Applications can directly use SNDCTL_DSP_[GET|SET][PLAY|REC]VOL, or for
  backwards compatibility, SOUND_MIXER_PCM through the opened dsp device
  instead of /dev/mixer.  Special "bypass" mode is enabled through
  /dev/mixer which will automatically detect if the adjustment is made
  through /dev/mixer and forward its request to this private volume
  controller.  Changes to this volume object will not interfere with
  other channels.

  Requirements:
    - SNDCTL_DSP_[GET|SET][PLAY|REC]_VOL are newer ioctls (OSSv4) which
      require specific application modifications (preferred).
    - No modifications required for using bypass mode, so applications
      like mplayer or xmms should work out of the box.

  Kernel hints:
    - hint.pcm.%d.vpc (0 = disable vpc).

  Kernel sysctls:
    - hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass (default: 1).  Enable or disable /dev/mixer
      bypass mode.
    - hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default: 1).  By default, closing/opening
      /dev/dsp will reset the volume back to 0 db gain/attenuation.
      Setting this to 0 will preserve its settings across device
      closing/opening.
    - hw.snd.vpc_reset (default: 0).  Panic/reset button to reset all
      volume settings back to 0 db.
    - hw.snd.vpc_0db (default: 45).  0 db relative to linear mixer value.

2 High quality fixed-point Bandlimited SINC sampling rate converter,
  based on Julius O'Smith's Digital Audio Resampling -
  http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/.  It includes a filter design
  script written in awk (the clumsiest joke I've ever written)
    - 100% 32bit fixed-point, 64bit accumulator.
    - Possibly among the fastest (if not fastest) of its kind.
    - Resampling quality is tunable, either runtime or during kernel
      compilation (FEEDER_RATE_PRESETS).
    - Quality can be further customized during kernel compilation by
      defining FEEDER_RATE_PRESETS in /etc/make.conf.

  Kernel sysctls:
    - hw.snd.feeder_rate_quality.
      0 - Zero-order Hold (ZOH).  Fastest, bad quality.
      1 - Linear Interpolation (LINEAR).  Slightly slower than ZOH,
          better quality but still does not eliminate aliasing.
      2 - (and above) - Sinc Interpolation(SINC).  Best quality.  SINC
          quality always start from 2 and above.

  Rough quality comparisons:
    - http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/z_comparison/

3 Bit-perfect mode.  Bypasses all feeder/dsp effects.  Pure sound will be
  directly fed into the hardware.

4 Parametric (compile time) Software Equalizer (Bass/Treble mixer). Can
  be customized by defining FEEDER_EQ_PRESETS in /etc/make.conf.

5 Transparent/Adaptive Virtual Channel. Now you don't have to disable
  vchans in order to make digital format pass through.  It also makes
  vchans more dynamic by choosing a better format/rate among all the
  concurrent streams, which means that dev.pcm.X.play.vchanformat/rate
  becomes sort of optional.

6 Exclusive Stream, with special open() mode O_EXCL.  This will "mute"
  other concurrent vchan streams and only allow a single channel with
  O_EXCL set to keep producing sound.

Other Changes:
    * most feeder_* stuffs are compilable in userland. Let's not
      speculate whether we should go all out for it (save that for
      FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE).
    * kobj signature fixups, thanks to Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
    * pull out channel mixing logic out of vchan.c and create its own
      feeder_mixer for world justice.
    * various refactoring here and there, for good or bad.
    * activation of few more OSSv4 ioctls() (see [1] above).
    * opt_snd.h for possible compile time configuration:
      (mostly for debugging purposes, don't try these at home)
        SND_DEBUG
        SND_DIAGNOSTIC
        SND_FEEDER_MULTIFORMAT
        SND_FEEDER_FULL_MULTIFORMAT
        SND_FEEDER_RATE_HP
        SND_PCM_64
        SND_OLDSTEREO

Manual page updates are on the way.

Tested by:	joel, Olivier SMEDTS <olivier at gid0 d org>, too many
          	unsung / unnamed heroes.
2009-06-07 19:12:08 +00:00
Ariff Abdullah
e4e61333ff Last (again ?!?) major commit for RELENG_7, featuring total Giant
eradication in/from userland path, countless locking fixes, etc.

- General sleep call through msleep(9) has been converted to condvar(9)
  with better consistencies.
- Heavily guard every possible "slow path" entries (open(), close(),
  few ioctl()s, sysctls), but once it entering "fast path" (io, interrupt
  started), they are free to fly on their own.
- Rearrange locking sequences, resulting better concurrency and
  serialization. Large part doesn't even need locking at all, and will be
  removed in future. Less clutter, except in few places due to lock
  ordering.
- Anonymous mixer object creation/deletion to simplify mixer handling
  beyond typical mixer ioctls.
  Submitted by:		chibis (with modifications)
- Add few mix_[get|set|..] functions to avoid calling mixer_ioctl()
  directly using cryptic arguments.
- Locking fixes to avoid possible deadlock with (still under Giant) USB.
- Better simplex/duplex device handling.
- Recover mmap() functionality for recording, which has been lost
  since 2.2.x - 3.x (the introduction of newpcm). Full-duplex mmap still
  doesn't work (due to VM/page design), but people still can mmap
  both by opening each direction separately. mmaped playback is guarantee
  to work either way.
- New sysctl: "hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap" to allow PROT_EXEC page
  mapping, due to recent changes in linux compatibility layer which
  require it. All linux applications that using sound + mmap() (mostly games)
  require this to be enabled. Disabled by default.
- Other goodies.. too many, that will increase releng7 shareholder value
  and make users of releng6 (and below) cry ;)

* This commit should be atomic. If anything goes wrong (not counting problem
  originated from elsewhere), I will not hesitate to revert everything back
  within 12 hours. This substantial changes itself not a rocket science
  and the process has begun for almost 2 years, and lots of incremental
  changes are already in place during that period of time.
* Some issues does occur in snd_emu10kx (note the 'x') due to various
  internal locking issues and it is currently being worked on by chibis.

Tested by:	chibis (Yuriy Tsibizov), joel, Alexandre Vieira,
          	many innocent souls...
2007-06-16 03:37:28 +00:00
Ariff Abdullah
f03f99e35f Last major commit and updates for RELENG_7:
Add few new files. The _real_ commit will follow shortly, so fasten
up your seatbelts, sit back and enjoy the ride..
2007-05-31 18:35:24 +00:00