On 4/29/25 10:55 AM, Luca Weiss wrote:
> On Mon Apr 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM CEST, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 4/28/25 9:41 AM, Luca Weiss wrote:
>>> On Fri Apr 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM CEST, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>> On 4/25/25 12:44 PM, Luca Weiss wrote:
>>>>> Enable USB audio offloading which allows to play audio via a USB-C
>>>>> headset with lower power consumption and enabling some other features.
>>>>>
>>>>> This can be used like the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ amixer -c0 cset name='USB_RX Audio Mixer MultiMedia1' On
>>>>> $ aplay --device=plughw:0,0 test.wav
>>>>>
>>>>> Compared to regular playback to the USB sound card no interrupts should
>>>>> appear on the xhci-hcd interrupts during playback, instead the ADSP will
>>>>> be handling the playback.
>>>>
>>>> "should" isn't very optimistic - I assume this works for you? >
>>>
>>> Yes it does!
>>>
>>> With 'should' I meant to describe the expected behavior from using this
>>> since most people are probably not familiar with how this works.
>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca.we...@fairphone.com>
>>>>> ---
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>>> &usb_1_dwc3 {
>>>>> maximum-speed = "super-speed";
>>>>> dr_mode = "otg";
>>>>> + num-hc-interrupters = /bits/ 16 <3>;
>>>> Where does this number come from?
>>>
>>> I'm honestly not 100% sure. As far as I understand it, with
>>> 'qcom,usb-audio-intr-idx = /bits/ 16 <2>;' in the qcom,q6usb node (which
>>> I've checked against downstream) we declare which "XHCI interrupter
>>> number to use". Without the num-hc-interrupters property we get an error
>>> that not enough interrupters are available (I assume only 1 is then), so
>>> this value practically needs to be higher than the <2> from earlier.
>>>
>>> Why it's this value and not a higher value e.g. 4 I'm not really sure.
>>> Downstream code looks somewhat different and "max_interrupters" in
>>> drivers/usb/ doesn't come from a dt property. I'd need to check more in
>>> details what this code does - or maybe Wesley can help.
>>
>> I got word that it's simply hw specific - please move it over to the
>> soc dt with the value of 3
>
> Will do, thanks for checking!
>
> Would you have a reference how to get the correct value for it based on
> downstream or the running kernel on the hw?
3 should be reasonable for most platforms, but I don't think there's
a clear value defined downstream
Konrad
