[maemo-developers] ALSA sound driver for Nokia 770 and DSP programming

[From: Simon Pickering]

> > Recently I have been trying to make it running and seems 
> > like we have a very
> > good chance to have it working nicely. It is also 
> > interesting, that the
> > linux-omap guys seem to be developing a new driver [3] for 
> > AIC23 which may
> > eventually become a better alternative.
> > Very nice!

Good stuff Siarhei :)

Have you built a replacement DSP-kernel yet?

> I will try your patch in mamona which IMO provides the most 
> easy way to
> test those things out. Mamona is based on OpenEmbedded and every other
> distribution made from it bases its sound core on ALSA not 
> gstreamer ...

Sounds like a useful test-bed.

> It is good that a new driver is in development, however I have doubts
> that we will be able to run 2.6.27+ on the N770 soon ;).
> 
> Is the AIC23 also in the N8x0 devices?

>From the N810 datasheet, it looks like it contains a TVL320AIC33NIZQER, or
in shorter form a TVL320AIC33:
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tlv320aic33.html

I seem to remember there being something different in the N800, anyone got
the datasheet handy for the N800?

Cheers,


Simon