Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927: Add dmic format constraint

From: Yu-Hsuan Hsu
Date: Fri Sep 13 2019 - 12:01:56 EST


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> On 9/11/19 9:27 PM, Yu-Hsuan Hsu wrote:
> > 24 bits recording from DMIC is not supported for KBL platform because
> > the TDM slot between PCH and codec is 16 bits only. We should add a
> > constraint to remove that unsupported format.
>
> Humm, when you use DMICs they are directly connected to the PCH with a
> standard 1-bit PDM. There is no notion of TDM or slot.
>
> It could very well be that the firmware/topology only support 16 bit (I
> vaguely recall another case where 24 bits was added), but the
> description in the commit message would need to be modified to make the
> reason for this change clearer.

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Thanks for the review! If I'm not mistaken, the microphone is attached
to external codec(rt5514) instead of PCH on Kabylake platform. So
there should be a TDM between DMICs and PCH. We can see in the
kabylake_ssp0_hw_params function, there are some operations about
setting tdm slot_width to 16 bits. Therefore, I think it only supports
S16_LE format for DMICs. Is it correct?
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> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu-Hsuan Hsu <yuhsuan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > sound/soc/intel/boards/kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/boards/kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927.c b/sound/soc/intel/boards/kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927.c
> > index 74dda8784f1a01..67b276a65a8d2d 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/intel/boards/kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927.c
> > +++ b/sound/soc/intel/boards/kbl_rt5663_rt5514_max98927.c
> > @@ -400,6 +400,9 @@ static int kabylake_dmic_startup(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> > snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list(runtime, 0, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_CHANNELS,
> > dmic_constraints);
> >
> > + runtime->hw.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE;
> > + snd_pcm_hw_constraint_msbits(runtime, 0, 16, 16);
> > +
> > return snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list(substream->runtime, 0,
> > SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_RATE, &constraints_rates);
> > }
> >
>