Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:24:42 +0200 From: Laurent Courty <lrntct@gmail.com> To: "Konstantin Dimitrov" <kosio.dimitrov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of VIA Envy24 audio controller Message-ID: <200607162024.43036.lrntct@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8103ad500607161011i66c1fd53rdf5397228ed7be3e@mail.gmail.com> References: <200606072039.13422.shoesoft@gmx.net> <200607161437.12152.lrntct@gmail.com> <8103ad500607161011i66c1fd53rdf5397228ed7be3e@mail.gmail.com>
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Le dimanche 16 juillet 2006 19:11, vous avez =E9crit=A0: > On 7/16/06, Laurent Courty <lrntct@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It's great to see people working on envy24 support. Thanks a lot hackers > > ! I'm thinking about buying an Onkyo SE-90PCI board. > > Do you think if it's possible to make it work on FreeBSD ? It seem to u= se > > the > > VT1720T (Envy24MT). As I see on Nikolas' web site, no datasheet is > > currently > > available for this chip. How can I help ? Should I ask VIA for datasheet > > ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Laurent > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > nothing is impossible, but ... > looks like it is time to discuss VIA reference design, because both > Chaintech AV710 (there are many similar versions of that board from other > manufacturer like OOAOO SQ710II) and Onkyo SE-90PCI seems to use reference > design. > according to that picture: > > http://xkodi.svobodno.com/xkodi/se90pci_3.jpg > > SE-90PCI uses VT1720T + WM8716 + 49.152 MHz crystal on VT1720T XIN2 pin. > i made list of VIA reference design with their corresponding EEPROM > content: > > http://xkodi.svobodno.com/envy24/envy24_ref_e2proms/envy24_ref_e2proms.ht= ml > > first revision of Chaintech AV710 uses Envy24PT (VT1720PT) and later > revision uses Envy24HT-S (VT1721) and that is possible, because all > Envy24GT/PT/MT/HT-S are subset of Envy24HT in term of features (and pins), > so SE-90PCI is number 5 in the list, Chaintech AV710 is number 7. > > datasheet are available only for Envy24PT and Envy24HT (and Envy24 but it > is very different chip) and comparing them it is possible to guess (but we > can't be sure) for example how Envy24HT-S works, but Envy24MT has differe= nt > package, so maybe very different pin assignment and it is very unlikely V= IA > to provide datasheets, because i have already asked them, when i buy my > first Envy24-based card. > > two days ago accidentally i found Chaintech AV710 and bought it, because = it > is very cheap - 10 times cheaper than my Terratec DMX 6fire, as i said it > is number 7 in the list of VIA reference design, so it uses VT1721 + VT16= 16 > + WM8728 + 24.576 MHz crystal on XIN2 pin. > VT1616 is AC97 codec, but WM8728 is I2S codec very similar to WM8716 used > in SE-90PCI. > > i'm trying to find out how the board works with WM8728, because WM8728 has > 3 control modes: > 1. hardware > 2. software: > 2.1. 3-wire SPI-compatible > 2.2. 2-wire > > also i'm assuming that pin assignment of Envy24HT-S is same as Envy24PT > (there is no datasheet available for Envy24HT-S) and i'm very puzzled, > because till now i can't find the LATI2S pin of WM8728 to be wired to any > of VT1721 GPIO pins, so it can't be in SPI mode and i'm starting to think > it is in hardware or 2-wire mode, but i'm not sure. also i can't understa= nd > from WM8728 datasheet how 2-wire mode works. all other Envy24-based board= s, > that have support till now under FreeBSD use SPI mode. > > WM8716 has 2 control modes: > 1. hardware > 2. 3-wire SPI-compatible > > both cards uses same VIA (very buggy) driver under Windows, both codecs > have hardware mode, so maybe it makes sense that hardware mode is used and > that the codec is initialized in hardware, because then no specific driver > code is required. > > on AV710 board DIN pin of WM8728 is wired to Envy24HT-S PSDOUT[1] pin, so > according to Envy24PT datasheet, "biDirectional PCI Stereo Pairs DMA > Playback" is used instead of "Multi-Channel Interleaved DMA Playback". > currently we have code only for "Multi-Channel Interleaved DMA Playback" > and at the moment i'm not sure how hard or how easy is "biDirectional PCI > Stereo Pairs DMA Playback" support to be added. > > i'm expecting SE-90PCI to have same design - DIN pin of WM8716 to be wired > to Envy24MT PSDOUT[1] pin. > > so for Chaintech AV710 and SE-90PCI a lot of new code is reqiured and also > to find out how WM8728/WM8716 are controlled, not to mention Envy24MT pin > assignment. > > i'm not aware of someone except me currently trying to do something about > Envy24 support under FreeBSD and my main interest is to add support for my > two Terratec cards - "DMX 6fire" and "Aureon Space". i have already add > support for "DMX 6fire" and it is running using the patched version of > Katsurajima Naoto's code for Envy24+AK452x. > > i also have added support for Envy24HT+WM8770: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-June/004347.ht= ml > > so my "Aureon Space" is also running, but the code is very messy, so i ne= ed > to refine it and also i'm planning to add support for Audiotrak Prodigy > 7.1, because it is very similar to "Aureon Space". > > it would be great if someone want to help with something, because current > code has some problems, there are very huge numbers of different > Envy24-based boards and making full Envy24 support under FreeBSD is very > huge task, so any help is appreciated. Thanks for your answer.=20 I was thinking VIA was more "FLOSS friendly". But if I understand well,=20 developers are more importants than datasheet here. Unfortunately I haven't= =20 any programming skills. So I can help in a very limited manner.=20 Laurent
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