As a result of investigation for Fireface 800, 'struct snd_ff_spec.regs'
is just for higher address to receive tx asynchronous packets of MIDI
messages, thus it can be simplified.
This commit simplifies it.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds a functionality to multiplex PCM frames into isochronous
packets and demultiplex PCM frames from isochronous packets for ALSA PCM
applications.
Fireface 800 voluntarily maintains resources for tx isochronous
communication. It performs reservation of isochronous channel and
allocation/update of bandwidth in some cases below:
- at a first request to allocation after bus resets
- at requests to allocation when further bandwidth is required
When request is grant and the unit is prepared, read data from
0x0000801c0008 represents isochronous channel for tx stream, then
the unit can handle requests to start communication. If driver
send the request without checking the register, the unit takes
panic to continue bus resets. The unit starts transmission of
tx packets after receiving several rx packets from driver.
I note that the unit can process tx/rx packets and generate/record
sound regardless of HOST LED.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The way to maintain isochronous resources on bus is different between
Fireface 400/800.
This commit is a preparation. This commit moves a function to allocate resource to
model-dependent implementation.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fireface 400/800 use three modes against the number of data channels in
data block for both tx/rx packets.
This commit adds refactoring for it. Some enumerators are added to
represent each of mode and a function is added to calculate the mode
from sampling frequency code (sfc).
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Both of Fireface 400/800 have the same register to switch frame fetching
mode regardless of difference of available number of PCM frames in
rx isochronous packet.
This commit moves a helper function from model-dependent implementation.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
According to my memo at hand and saved records, writing 0x00000001 to
SND_FF_REG_FETCH_PCM_FRAMES disables fetching PCM frames in corresponding
channel, however current implement uses reversed logic. This results in
muted volume in device side during playback.
This commit corrects the bug.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12+
Fixes: 76fdb3a9e1 ('ALSA: fireface: add support for Fireface 400')
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fireface 800 is a flagship model of RME GmbH for audio and music units
on IEEE 1394 bus, shipped 2004. This model consists of four chips:
- TI TSB81BA3D for physical layer on cable environment of EEE 1394 bus
- TI TSB82AA2 for link layer for 1394 OHCI bus bridge to PCI bus
- Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA XC3S400
- Xilinx High-Performance CPLD XC9572XL
This commit adds support Fireface 800. In this time, the support is
restricted to its MIDI functionality, thus this commit adds some
condition statements to avoid touching streaming functionality.
Unlike Fireface 400, Fireface 800 has no functionality to suppress
asynchronous transactions for MIDI messages except for unregister of
listen address in controller side, thus the feature is available as is.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Content of asynchronous transaction for MIDI messages differs between
Fireface 400 and 800.
This commit adds a model-specific handler for the transaction and adds
arrangement.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fireface 400 and 800 have the same mechanism to decide address to which
asynchronous transactions are sent for MIDI messages, however they use
different registers for controllers to notify higher 4 byte of the
address.
This commit adds a model-specific parameter to represent the address.
Additionally, it corrects some comments. I note that these two models have
a difference to enable/disable the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating packet dumps from Fireface 400/800, a register
to receive asynchronous transactions for MIDI messages is the same. For
Fireface 800, minor register is used.
This commit declares macros for the transactions and obsoletes
model-specific parameters.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Unlike Fireface 400, Fireface 800 have two pair of optical interface
for ADAT signal and S/PDIF signal. ADAT signals for the interface
are handled for sampling clock source separately.
This commit modifies a parser for clock configuration to distinguish
these two ADAT signals.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating packet dumps from Fireface 400/800, bits on
status registers for clock synchronization are the same.
This commit moves a parser for a register of clock configuration to
obsolete model-specific operations.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating packet dumps from Fireface 400/800, bits on
status registers for clock synchronization are the same.
This commit moves a parser for the registers to obsolete model-specific
operations.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating packet dumps from Fireface 400/800, status
registers for clock synchronization is common.
This commit moves some macros for them to header file.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In an initial commit, 'SYNC_STATUS' register is referred to get
clock configuration, however this is wrong, according to my local
note at hand for reverse-engineering about packet dump. It should
be 'CLOCK_CONFIG' register. Actually, ff400_dump_clock_config()
is correctly programmed.
This commit fixes the bug.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12+
Fixes: 76fdb3a9e1 ('ALSA: fireface: add support for Fireface 400')
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In former commits, .private_free callback releases resources just for
data transmission. This release function can be called without the
resources are actually allocated in error paths.
This commit applies a small refactoring to clean up codes in error
paths.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In a previous commit, drivers in ALSA firewire stack blocks .remove
callback of bus driver. This enables to release members of private
data in the callback after releasing device of sound card.
This commit simplifies codes to release the members.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
At present, in .remove callback of bus driver just decrease reference
count of device for ALSA card instance. This delegates release of the
device to a process in which the last of ALSA character device is
released.
On the other hand, the other drivers such as for devices on PCIe are
programmed to block .remove callback of bus driver till all of ALSA
character devices are released.
For consistency of behaviour for whole drivers, this probably confuses
users. This commit takes drivers in ALSA firewire stack to imitate the
above behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
At present, private data of each driver in ALSA firewire stack is
allocated/freed by kernel slab allocator for corresponding unit on
IEEE 1394 bus. In this case, resource-managed slab allocator is
available to release memory object automatically just before releasing
device structure for the unit. This idea can prevent runtime from
memory leak due to programming mistakes.
This commit uses the allocator for the private data. These drivers
already use reference counter to maintain lifetime of device structure
for the unit by a pair of fw_unit_get()/fw_unit_put(). The private data
is safely released in a callback of 'struct snd_card.private_free().
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
snd_pcm_lib_mmap_vmalloc() was supposed to be implemented with
somewhat special for vmalloc handling, but in the end, this turned to
just the default handler, i.e. NULL. As the situation has never
changed over decades, let's rip it off.
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as
using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
readable.
see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
Done with automated conversion via:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>
Miscellanea:
o Wrapped one multi-line call to a single line
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:
for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
done
with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.
NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.
The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.
Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.
However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:
----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()
// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better reused
at the end of this function.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Drivers in ALSA firewire stack still includes some symbols which can be
moved to a section for read-only symbols.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In ALSA firewire stack, 8 drivers uses IEC 61883-1/6 engine for data
transmission. They have common PCM info/constraints and duplicated codes.
This commit unifies the codes into fireiwre-lib.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
ALSA fireface driver has ALSA specific operations for MIDI/PCM data.
Structured data for the operations can be constified. Additionally,
The structured data can be function local.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In recent commit for ALSA PCM core, some arrangement is done for
'struct snd_pcm_ops.ack' callback. This is called when appl_ptr is
explicitly moved in intermediate buffer for PCM frames, except for
some cases described later.
For drivers in ALSA firewire stack, usage of this callback has a merit to
reduce latency between time of PCM frame queueing and handling actual
packets in recent isochronous cycle, because no need to wait for software
IRQ context from isochronous context of OHCI 1394.
If this works well in a case that mapped page frame is used for the
intermediate buffer, user process should execute some commands for ioctl(2)
to tell the number of handled PCM frames in the intermediate buffer just
after handling them. Therefore, at present, with a combination of below
conditions, this doesn't work as expected and user process should wait for
the software IRQ context as usual:
- when ALSA PCM core judges page frame mapping is available for status
data (struct snd_pcm_mmap_status) and control data
(struct snd_pcm_mmap_control).
- user process handles PCM frames by loop just with 'snd_pcm_mmap_begin()'
and 'snd_pcm_mmap_commit()'.
- user process uses PCM hw plugin in alsa-lib to operate I/O without
'sync_ptr_ioctl' option.
Unfortunately, major use case include these three conditions.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In development period for Linux v4.10, ktime_t became an alias of s64,
instead of union. I forgot it. We can just assign zero, instead of usage
of ktime_set(0, 0).
Fixes: 1917429578 ("ALSA: fireface: add transaction support")
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fireface 400 is a second model of RME Fireface series, released in 2006.
This commit adds support for this model.
This model supports 8 analog channels, 2 S/PDIF channels and 8 ADAT
channels in both of tx/rx packet. The number of ADAT channels differs
depending on each mode of sampling transmission frequency.
$ python2 linux-firewire-utils/src/crpp < /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw1/config_rom
ROM header and bus information block
-----------------------------------------------------------------
400 04107768 bus_info_length 4, crc_length 16, crc 30568 (should be 61311)
404 31333934 bus_name "1394"
408 20009002 irmc 0, cmc 0, isc 1, bmc 0, cyc_clk_acc 0, max_rec 9 (1024)
40c 000a3501 company_id 000a35 |
410 1bd0862a device_id 011bd0862a | EUI-64 000a35011bd0862a
root directory
-----------------------------------------------------------------
414 000485ec directory_length 4, crc 34284
418 03000a35 vendor
41c 0c0083c0 node capabilities per IEEE 1394
420 8d000006 --> eui-64 leaf at 438
424 d1000001 --> unit directory at 428
unit directory at 428
-----------------------------------------------------------------
428 000314c4 directory_length 3, crc 5316
42c 12000a35 specifier id
430 13000002 version
434 17101800 model
eui-64 leaf at 438
-----------------------------------------------------------------
438 000261a8 leaf_length 2, crc 25000
43c 000a3501 company_id 000a35 |
440 1bd0862a device_id 011bd0862a | EUI-64 000a35011bd0862a
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds hwdep interface so as the other drivers for audio and
music units on IEEE 1394 have.
This interface is designed for mixer/control applications. By using this
interface, an application can get information about firewire node, can
lock/unlock kernel streaming and can get notification at starting/stopping
kernel streaming.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds PCM functionality to transmit/receive PCM frames on
isochronous packet streaming. This commit enables userspace applications
to start/stop packet streaming via ALSA PCM interface.
Sampling rate requested by applications is used as sampling transmission
frequency of IEC 61883-1/6packet streaming. As I described in followed
commits, units in this series manages sampling clock frequency
independently of sampling transmission frequency, and they supports
resampling between their packet streaming/data block processing layer and
sampling data processing layer. This commit take this driver to utilize
these features for usability.
When internal clock is selected as source signal of sampling clock, this
driver allows user space applications to start PCM substreams at any rate
which packet streaming engine supports as sampling transmission frequency.
In this case, this driver expects units to perform resampling PCM frames
for rx/tx packets when sampling clock frequency and sampling transmission
frequency are mismatched. This is for daily use cases.
When any external clock is selected as the source signal, this driver
gets configured sampling rate from units, then restricts available
sampling rate to the rate for PCM applications. This is for studio use
cases.
Models in this series supports 64.0/128.0 kHz of sampling rate, however
these frequencies are not supported by IEC 61883-6 as sampling transmission
frequency. Therefore, packet streaming engine of ALSA firewire stack can't
handle them. When units are configured to use any external clock as source
signal of sampling clock and one of these unsupported rate is configured
as rate of the sampling clock, this driver returns EIO to user space
applications.
Anyway, this driver doesn't voluntarily configure parameters of sampling
clock. It's better for users to work with appropriate user space
implementations to configure the parameters in advance of usage.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds management functionality for packet streaming.
As long as investigating Fireface 400, there're three modes depending
on sampling transmission frequency. The number of data channels in each
data block is different depending on the mode. The set of available
data channels for each mode might be different for each protocol and
model.
The length of registers for the number of isochronous channel is just
three bits, therefore 0-7ch are available.
When bus reset occurs on IEEE 1394 bus, the device discontinues to
transmit packets. This commit aborts PCM substreams at bus reset handler.
As I described in followed commits, The device manages its sampling clock
independently of sampling transmission frequency against IEC 61883-6.
Thus, it's a lower cost to change the sampling transmission frequency,
while data fetch between streaming layer and DSP require larger buffer
for resampling. As a result, device latency might tend to be larger than
ASICs for IEC 61883-1/6 such as DM1000/DM1100/DM1500 (BeBoB),
DiceII/TCD2210/TCD2220/TCD3070 and OXFW970/971.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating Fireface 400, format of payload of each
isochronous packet is not IEC 61883-1/6, thus its format of data block
is not AM824. The remarkable points of the format are:
* The payload just consists of some data channels of quadlet size without
CIP header.
* Each data channels includes data aligned to little endian order.
* One data channel consists of two parts; 8 bit ancillary field and 24 bit
PCM frame.
Due to lack of CIP headers, rx/tx packets include no CIP headers and
different way to check packet discontinuity. For tx packet, the ancillary
field is used for counter. However, the way of counting is different
depending on positions of data channels. At 44.1 kHz, ancillary field in:
* 1st/6th/9th/10th/14th/17th data channels: not used for this purpose.
* 2nd/18th data channels: incremented every data block (0x00-0xff).
* 3rd/4th/5th/11th/12th/13th data channels: incremented every 256 data
blocks (0x00-0x07).
* 7th/8th/15th/16th data channels: incremented per the number of data
blocks in a packet. The increment can occur per packet (0x00-0xff).
For tx packet, tag of each isochronous packet is used for this purpose.
The value of tag cyclically changes between 0, 1, 2 and 3 in this order.
The interval is different depending on sampling transmission frequency.
At 44.1/48.0 kHz, it's 256 data blocks. At 88.2 kHz, it's 96 data blocks.
The number of data blocks in tx packet is exactly the same as
SYT_INTERVAL. There's no empty packet or no-data packet, thus the
throughput is not 8,000 packets per sec. On the other hand, the one in
rx packet is 8,000 packets per sec, thus the number of data blocks is
different between each packet, depending on sampling transmission
frequency:
* 44.1 kHz: 5 or 6
* 48.0 kHz: 5 or 6 or 7
* 88.2 kHz: 10 or 11 or 12
This commit adds data processing layer to satisfy the above specification
in a policy of 'best effort'. Although PCM frames are handled for
intermediate buffer to user space, the ancillary data is not handled at all
to reduce CPU usage, thus counter is not checked. 0 is always used for tag
of isochronous packet. Furthermore, the packet streaming layer is
responsible for calculation of the number of data blocks for each packet,
thus it's not exactly the same sequence from the above observation.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Drivers can retrieve the state and configuration of clock by read
transactions.
This commit allows protocol abstraction layer to to dump the
information for debugging, via proc interface.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
In previous commit, fireface driver supports unique transaction mechanism
for MIDI feature. This commit adds MIDI functionality for userspace
applications.
As I wrote in a followed commit, user space applications get some
requirement from this driver. It should not touch a register to which
units transmit MIDI messages. It should configure a register in which
MIDI transmission is controlled.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As long as investigating Fireface 400, MIDI messages are transferred by
asynchronous communication over IEEE 1394 bus.
Fireface 400 receives MIDI messages by write transactions to two addresses;
0x'0000'0801'8000 and 0x'0000'0801'9000. Each of two seems to correspond to
MIDI port 1 and 2.
Fireface 400 transfers MIDI messages by write transactions to certain
addresses which configured by drivers. The drivers can decide upper 4 byte
of the addresses by write transactions to 0x'0000'0801'03f4. For the rest
part of the address, drivers can select from below options:
* 0x'0000'0000
* 0x'0000'0080
* 0x'0000'0100
* 0x'0000'0180
Selected options are represented in register 0x'0000'0801'051c as bit
flags. Due to this mechanism, drivers are restricted to use addresses on
'Memory space' of IEEE 1222, even if transactions to the address have
some side effects.
This commit adds transaction support for MIDI messaging, based on my
assumption that the similar mechanism is used on the other protocols. To
receive asynchronous transactions, the driver allocates a range of address
in 'Memory space'. I apply a strategy to use 0x'0000'0000 as lower 4 byte
of the address. When getting failure from Linux FireWire subsystem, this
driver retries to allocate addresses.
Unfortunately, read transaction to address 0x'0000'0801'051c returns zero
always, however write transactions have effects to the other features such
as status of sampling clock. For this reason, this commit delegates a task
to configure this register to user space applications. The applications
should set 3rd bit in LSB in little endian order.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
As of 2016, RME discontinued its Fireface series, thus it's OK for us
to focus on released firmwares to drive known units.
As long as investigating Fireface 400 with Windows driver and comparing
the result to FFADO implementation, I can see these firmwares have
different register assignments. On the other hand, according to manuals
of each models, features relevant to packet streaming seem to be common,
because GUIs for these models have the same options. It's reasonable to
assume an abstraction layer of protocols to communicate to each models.
This commit adds the abstraction layer for the protocols. This layer
includes some functions to operate common features of models in this
series.
In IEC 61883-1/6, the sequence of packet can transfer timing information
to synchronize receivers to transmitters. Units of each node on IEEE 1394
bus can generate transmitter's timing clock by handling value of SYT field
in CIP header with high-precision clock. For audio and music units on
IEEE 1394 bus, this recovered clock is designed to used for sampling clock
to capture/generate PCM frames on DSP/ADC/DAC. (Actually, in this world,
there's no units to implement this specification as is, as long as I
know).
Fireface series doesn't use this mechanism. Besides, It doesn't use
isochronous packet with CIP header. It uses internal crystal unit as its
initial sampling clock. When detecting input signals which can be
available for sampling clock (e.g. ADAT input), drivers can configure
units to use the signals as source of sampling clock. When something goes
wrong, e.g. frequency mismatching between the signal and configured value,
units fallback to the other detected signals alternatively. When detecting
no alternatives, internal crystal unit is used as source of sampling
clock. On manual of Fireface 400, this mechanism is described as
'Autosync'.
On the units, packet streaming is controlled by write transactions to
certain registers. Format of the packet, e.g. the number of data channels
in a data block, is also configured by the same manner. For this purpose,
.begin_session and .finish_session is added.
The remarkable point of this protocol is to allow drivers to configure
arbitrary sampling transmission frequency; e.g. 12.345 Hz. As long as I
know, there's no actual DAC/ADC chips which support this kind of
capability. I think a pair of packet streaming layer and data block
processing layer is isolated from sampling data processing layer in a
point of governed clock. In short, between these parts, resampling layer
exists. Actually, for Fireface 400, write transactions to
0x'0000'8010'051c has an effect to change sampling clock frequency with
base frequencies (32.0/44.1/48.0 kHz) and its multipliers (x2/x4),
regardless of sampling transmission frequency.
For this reason, the abstraction layer doesn't handle parameters for
sampling clock. Instead, each implementation of .begin_session is
expected to configure sampling transmission frequency.
For packet streaming layer, it's enough to get current selection of
source signals for the sampling clock and its frequency. In the
abstraction layer, when internal crystal is selected, drivers can sets
arbitrary sampling frequency, else they should follow configured
frequency. For this purpose, .get_clock is added.
Drivers are allows to bank up data fetching from a pair of packet
streaming/data block processing layer and sampling data processing layer.
This feature seems to suppress noises at starting/stopping packet
streaming. For this purpose, .switch_fetching_mode is added.
As I described in the above, units have remarkable mechanism to manage
sampling clock and process sampling data. For debugging purpose,
.dump_sync_status and .dump_clock_config are added. I don't have a need
to common interface to represent the status and configuration,
developers can add actual implementation of the abstraction layer as they
like.
Unlike PCM frames, MIDI messages are transferred by asynchronous
communication over IEEE 1394 bus, thus target addresses are important for
this feature. The .midi_high_addr_reg, .midi_rx_port_0_reg and
.midi_rx_port_1_reg are for this purpose. I'll describe them in following
commit.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
RME Fireface series has several models and their specifications are
different. Currently, we find no way to retrieve the specifications
from actual devices and need to implement them in this driver.
This commit adds a structure to describe model specific data. This
structure has an identical name for each unit, and maximum number of
data channels in each mode. I'll describe about the mode in following
commits.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Just after appearing on IEEE 1394 bus, this unit generates several bus
resets. This is due to loading firmware from on-board flash memory and
initialize hardware. It's better to postpone sound card registration.
This commit schedules workqueue to process actual probe processing
2 seconds after the last bus-reset. The card instance is kept at unit
probe callback and released at card free callback. Therefore, when the
actual probe processing fails, the memory block is wasted. This is due to
simplify driver implementation.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
This commit adds a new driver for RME Fireface series. This commit just
creates/removes card instance according to IEEE 1394 bus event. More
functions will be added in following commits.
Three types of firmware have released by RME GmbH; for Fireface 400, for
Fireface 800 and for UCX/802/UFX. It's reasonable that these models use
different protocol for communication. Currently, I've investigated
Fireface 400 and nothing others.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
