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@@ -447,7 +447,10 @@ The file needs to have a line `[codec]`. The next line should contain
three numbers indicating the codec vendor-id (0x12345678 in the
example), the codec subsystem-id (0xabcd1234) and the address (2) of
the codec. The rest patch entries are applied to this specified codec
-until another codec entry is given.
+until another codec entry is given. Passing 0 or a negative number to
+the first or the second value will make the check of the corresponding
+field be skipped. It'll be useful for really broken devices that don't
+initialize SSID properly.
The `[model]` line allows to change the model name of the each codec.
In the example above, it will be changed to model=auto.
@@ -491,7 +494,7 @@ Also, the codec chip name can be rewritten via `[chip_name]` line.
The hd-audio driver reads the file via request_firmware(). Thus,
a patch file has to be located on the appropriate firmware path,
typically, /lib/firmware. For example, when you pass the option
-`patch=hda-init.fw`, the file /lib/firmware/hda-init-fw must be
+`patch=hda-init.fw`, the file /lib/firmware/hda-init.fw must be
present.
The patch module option is specific to each card instance, and you
@@ -524,6 +527,54 @@ power-saving. See /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save to
check the current value. If it's non-zero, the feature is turned on.
+Tracepoints
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+The hd-audio driver gives a few basic tracepoints.
+`hda:hda_send_cmd` traces each CORB write while `hda:hda_get_response`
+traces the response from RIRB (only when read from the codec driver).
+`hda:hda_bus_reset` traces the bus-reset due to fatal error, etc,
+`hda:hda_unsol_event` traces the unsolicited events, and
+`hda:hda_power_down` and `hda:hda_power_up` trace the power down/up
+via power-saving behavior.
+
+Enabling all tracepoints can be done like
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/hda/enable
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+then after some commands, you can traces from
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file. For example, when you want to
+trace what codec command is sent, enable the tracepoint like:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+ # tracer: nop
+ #
+ # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
+ # | | | | |
+ <...>-7807 [002] 105147.774889: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3a019
+ <...>-7807 [002] 105147.774893: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e39019
+ <...>-7807 [002] 105147.999542: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3a01a
+ <...>-7807 [002] 105147.999543: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3901a
+ <...>-26764 [001] 349222.837143: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3a019
+ <...>-26764 [001] 349222.837148: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e39019
+ <...>-26764 [001] 349223.058539: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3a01a
+ <...>-26764 [001] 349223.058541: hda_send_cmd: [0:0] val=e3901a
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Here `[0:0]` indicates the card number and the codec address, and
+`val` shows the value sent to the codec, respectively. The value is
+a packed value, and you can decode it via hda-decode-verb program
+included in hda-emu package below. For example, the value e3a019 is
+to set the left output-amp value to 25.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ % hda-decode-verb 0xe3a019
+ raw value = 0x00e3a019
+ cid = 0, nid = 0x0e, verb = 0x3a0, parm = 0x19
+ raw value: verb = 0x3a0, parm = 0x19
+ verbname = set_amp_gain_mute
+ amp raw val = 0xa019
+ output, left, idx=0, mute=0, val=25
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
Development Tree
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The latest development codes for HD-audio are found on sound git tree: