Incidentally, the Documentation of the ALSA-DSP MADI Driver (this is another 
interface, but
from the same manufacturer RME) has a nice explanation of the "Precise Pointer" 
parameter:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sound/alsa/hdspm.txt

> Hardware-pointer -- 2 Modi

>   The Card supports the readout of the actual Buffer-pointer,
>   where DMA reads/writes. Since of the bulk mode of PCI it is only
>   64 Byte accurate. SO it is not really usable for the
>   ALSA-mid-level functions (here the buffer-ID gives a better
>   result), but if MMAP is used by the application. Therefore it
>   can be configured at load-time with the parameter
>   precise-pointer.
...
>   Precise Pointer -- off              interrupt used for pointer-calculation
>   Precise Pointer -- on               hardware pointer used.

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  Hammerfall DSP needs alsactl init db entry to work with Pulseaudio

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