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.
Use bus_get_dma_tag() to obtain the parent DMA tag to make the drivers
a little bit more non-ia32/amd64 friendly.
There is no man page for bus_get_dma_tag, so this is modelled after
rev. 1.62 of src/sys/dev/sound/pci/es137x.c by marius.
Inspired by: commit by marius
/usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright. I've fixed a
few minor wording and formatting differences.
Approved by: luigi, Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
mask to recdev_l and recdev_r, since each have its own unique mask.
Submitted by: Watanabe Kazuhiro <CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp>
Approved by: netchild (mentor)
From the PR:
---snip---
The vibra16X supports full duplex. I traced the Windows driver, and what is
does is that it programs one DMA channel 8-bit, and the other 16-bit. There
might be some kind of auto detection logic here, because it always uses 8-bit
for playback, even if I play 16-bit sound ...
---snip---
PR: 80977
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
assign DMA address to the wrong address. It can cause system lockup
or other mysterious errors. Since most sound cards requires low DMA
address(BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR_24BIT) sndbuf_alloc() would fail when the
audio driver is loaded after long running of operations.
Approved by: jake (mentor)
Reviewed by: truckman, matk
calls in sb_cmd2() and sb_getmixer(). The lock has already be grabbed
before these functions are called.
This is a RELENG_5 candidate.
PR: 71189
Submitted by: stephane
MFC after: 3 days
- `sound'
The generic sound driver, always required.
- `snd_*'
Device-dependent drivers, named after the sound module names.
Configure accordingly to your hardware.
In addition, rename the `snd_pcm' module to `sound' in order to sync
with the driver names.
Suggested by: cg
I added bounds checking to the patch and cg improved
the formular.
Submitted by: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
PR: kern/65485
Approved by: cg
Reviewed by: imp, rwatson, le
proper locking to be checked at runtime.
Remove sb_lock() and sb_unlock() calls from sb_reset_dsp() because the
latter is called from sb_setup() with the lock already held. Add a
call to sb_lockassert().
Surround the call to sb_reset_dsp() in sb16_attach() with sb_lock()
and sb_unlock() calls.
Tested by: Bartek Marcinkiewicz <junior AT p233.if.pwr.wroc.pl>
because they bogusly check for defined(INTR_MPSAFE) -- something which
never was a #define. Correct the definitions.
This make INTR_TYPE_AV finally get used instead of the lower-priority
INTR_TYPE_TTY, so it's quite possible some improvement will be had
on sound driver performance. It would also make all the drivers
marked INTR_MPSAFE actually run without Giant (which does seem to
work for me), but:
INTR_MPSAFE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM EVERY SOUND DRIVER!
It needs to be re-added on a case-by-case basis since there is no one
who will vouch for which sound drivers, if any, willy actually operate
correctly without Giant, since there hasn't been testing because of
this bug disabling INTR_MPSAFE.
Found by: "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
Add two new arguments to bus_dma_tag_create(): lockfunc and lockfuncarg.
Lockfunc allows a driver to provide a function for managing its locking
semantics while using busdma. At the moment, this is used for the
asynchronous busdma_swi and callback mechanism. Two lockfunc implementations
are provided: busdma_lock_mutex() performs standard mutex operations on the
mutex that is specified from lockfuncarg. dftl_lock() is a panic
implementation and is defaulted to when NULL, NULL are passed to
bus_dma_tag_create(). The only time that NULL, NULL should ever be used is
when the driver ensures that bus_dmamap_load() will not be deferred.
Drivers that do not provide their own locking can pass
busdma_lock_mutex,&Giant args in order to preserve the former behaviour.
sparc64 and powerpc do not provide real busdma_swi functions, so this is
largely a noop on those platforms. The busdma_swi on is64 is not properly
locked yet, so warnings will be emitted on this platform when busdma
callback deferrals happen.
If anyone gets panics or warnings from dflt_lock() being called, please
let me know right away.
Reviewed by: tmm, gibbs
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
* add new channels to the end of the list so channels used in order of
addition
* de-globalise definition of struct snddev_info and provide accessor
functions where necessary.
* move the $FreeBSD$ tag in each .c file into a macro and allow the
/dev/sndstat handler to display these when set to maximum verbosity to aid
debugging.
* allow each device to register its own sndstat handler to reduce the amount
of groping sndstat must do in foreign structs.
worked before.
mixer, dsp and sndstat are seperate devices - give them their own cdevsws
instead of demuxing requests sent to a single cdevsw.
use the si_drv1/si_drv2 fields in dev_t structures for holding information
specific to an open instance of mixer/dsp.
nuke /dev/{dsp,dspW,audio}[0-9]* links - this functionality is now provided
using cloning.
various locking fixes.
this introduces a new buffering mechanism which results in dramatic
simplification of the channel manager.
as several structures have changed, we take the opportunity to move their
definitions into the source files where they are used, make them private and
de-typedef them.
the sound drivers are updated to use snd_setup_intr instead of
bus_setup_intr, and to comply with the de-typedefed structures.
the ac97, mixer and channel layers have been updated with finegrained
locking, as have some drivers- not all though. the rest will follow soon.
modify chn_setblocksize() to pick a default soft-blocksize appropriate to the
sample rate and format in use. it will aim for a power of two size small
enough to generate block sizes of at most 20ms. it will also set the
hard-blocksize taking into account rate/format conversions in use.
update drivers to implement setblocksize correctly:
updated, tested: sb16, emu10k1, maestro, solo
updated, untested: ad1816, ess, mss, sb8, csa
not updated: ds1, es137x, fm801, neomagic, t4dwave, via82c686
i lack hardware to test: ad1816, csa, fm801, neomagic
others will be updated/tested in the next few days.
this gives us several benefits, including:
* easier extensibility- new optional methods can be added to
ac97/mixer/channel classes without having to fixup every driver.
* forward compatibility for drivers, provided no new mandatory methods are
added.
change channel interface - kobj implementation coming soonish
make pcm_makelinks not panic if modular
add pcm_unregister()
these changes support newpcm kld unloading, but this is only implemented
by ds1.c
modify driver capability reporting format to list every audio format
seperately- required for above and because we could not previously indicate
that mono was unsupported.
there should be no functional impact.
rewrite ess mixer to use native registers
rewrite play/rec code to use more accurate timer when available
add code to use audio2 for playback, but disable it as no irqs are generated