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author | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530 |
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committer | Srikant Patnaik | 2015-01-11 12:28:04 +0530 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/ESS b/Documentation/sound/oss/ESS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bba93b4d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/ESS @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Documentation for the ESS AudioDrive chips + +In 2.4 kernels the SoundBlaster driver not only tries to detect an ESS chip, it +tries to detect the type of ESS chip too. The correct detection of the chip +doesn't always succeed however, so unless you use the kernel isapnp facilities +(and you chip is pnp capable) the default behaviour is 2.0 behaviour which +means: only detect ES688 and ES1688. + +All ESS chips now have a recording level setting. This is a need-to-have for +people who want to use their ESS for recording sound. + +Every chip that's detected as a later-than-es1688 chip has a 6 bits logarithmic +master volume control. + +Every chip that's detected as a ES1887 now has Full Duplex support. Made a +little testprogram that shows that is works, haven't seen a real program that +needs this however. + +For ESS chips an additional parameter "esstype" can be specified. This controls +the (auto) detection of the ESS chips. It can have 3 kinds of values: + +-1 Act like 2.0 kernels: only detect ES688 or ES1688. +0 Try to auto-detect the chip (may fail for ES1688) +688 The chip will be treated as ES688 +1688 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1688 +1868 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1868 +1869 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1869 +1788 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1788 +1887 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1887 +1888 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ES1888 + +Because Full Duplex is supported for ES1887 you can specify a second DMA +channel by specifying module parameter dma16. It can be one of: 0, 1, 3 or 5. + |