Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
+
+<book id="ViaAudioGuide">
+ <bookinfo>
+  <title>Via 686 Audio Driver for Linux</title>
+  
+  <authorgroup>
+   <author>
+    <firstname>Jeff</firstname>
+    <surname>Garzik</surname>
+   </author>
+  </authorgroup>
+
+  <copyright>
+   <year>1999-2001</year>
+   <holder>Jeff Garzik</holder>
+  </copyright>
+
+  <legalnotice>
+   <para>
+     This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+     it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+     License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+     version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+     version.
+   </para>
+      
+   <para>
+     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
+     useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+     warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+     See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+   </para>
+      
+   <para>
+     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+     License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
+     Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+     MA 02111-1307 USA
+   </para>
+      
+   <para>
+     For more details see the file COPYING in the source
+     distribution of Linux.
+   </para>
+  </legalnotice>
+ </bookinfo>
+
+<toc></toc>
+
+  <chapter id="intro">
+      <title>Introduction</title>
+  <para>
+  	The Via VT82C686A "super southbridge" chips contain
+	AC97-compatible audio logic which features dual 16-bit stereo
+	PCM sound channels (full duplex), plus a third PCM channel intended for use
+	in hardware-assisted FM synthesis.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+  	The current Linux kernel audio driver for this family of chips
+	supports audio playback and recording, but hardware-assisted
+	FM features, and hardware buffer direct-access (mmap)
+	support are not yet available.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+  	This driver supports any Linux kernel version after 2.4.10.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	Please send bug reports to the mailing list <email>linux-via@gtf.org</email>.
+	To subscribe, e-mail <email>majordomo@gtf.org</email> with
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	subscribe linux-via
+  </programlisting>
+  <para>
+	in the body of the message.
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+  
+  <chapter id="install">
+      <title>Driver Installation</title>
+  <para>
+  	To use this audio driver, select the
+	CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX option in the section Sound during kernel configuration.
+	Follow the usual kernel procedures for rebuilding the kernel,
+	or building and installing driver modules.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+  	To make this driver the default audio driver, you can add the
+	following to your /etc/conf.modules file:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	alias sound via82cxxx_audio
+  </programlisting>
+  <para>
+  	Note that soundcore and ac97_codec support modules
+	are also required for working audio, in addition to
+	the via82cxxx_audio module itself.
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+  
+  <chapter id="reportbug">
+      <title>Submitting a bug report</title>
+  <sect1 id="bugrepdesc"><title>Description of problem</title>
+  <para>
+	Describe the application you were using to play/record sound, and how
+	to reproduce the problem.
+  </para>
+  </sect1>
+  <sect1 id="bugrepdiag"><title>Diagnostic output</title>
+  <para>
+	Obtain the via-audio-diag diagnostics program from
+	http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ and provide a dump of the
+	audio chip's registers while the problem is occurring.  Sample command line:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	./via-audio-diag -aps > diag-output.txt
+  </programlisting>
+  </sect1>
+  <sect1 id="bugrepdebug"><title>Driver debug output</title>
+  <para>
+	Define <constant>VIA_DEBUG</constant> at the beginning of the driver, then capture and email
+	the kernel log output.  This can be viewed in the system kernel log (if
+	enabled), or via the dmesg program.  Sample command line:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	dmesg > /tmp/dmesg-output.txt
+  </programlisting>
+  </sect1>
+  <sect1 id="bugrepprintk"><title>Bigger kernel message buffer</title>
+  <para>
+	If you wish to increase the size of the buffer displayed by dmesg, then
+	change the <constant>LOG_BUF_LEN</constant> macro at the top of linux/kernel/printk.c, recompile
+	your kernel, and pass the <constant>LOG_BUF_LEN</constant> value to dmesg.  Sample command line with
+	<constant>LOG_BUF_LEN</constant> == 32768:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	dmesg -s 32768 > /tmp/dmesg-output.txt
+  </programlisting>
+  </sect1>
+  </chapter>
+  
+  <chapter id="bugs">
+     <title>Known Bugs And Assumptions</title>
+  <para>
+  <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry><term>Low volume</term>
+    <listitem>
+    <para>
+	Volume too low on many systems.  Workaround:  use mixer program
+	such as xmixer to increase volume.
+    </para>
+    </listitem></varlistentry>
+
+  </variablelist>
+	
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="thanks">
+      <title>Thanks</title>
+  <para>
+	Via for providing e-mail support, specs, and NDA'd source code.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	MandrakeSoft for providing hacking time.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	AC97 mixer interface fixes and debugging by Ron Cemer <email>roncemer@gte.net</email>.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	Rui Sousa <email>rui.sousa@conexant.com</email>, for bugfixing
+	MMAP support, and several other notable fixes that resulted from
+	his hard work and testing.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	Adrian Cox <email>adrian@humboldt.co.uk</email>, for bugfixing
+	MMAP support, and several other notable fixes that resulted from
+	his hard work and testing.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+  	Thomas Sailer for further bugfixes.
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+  
+  <chapter id="notes">
+     <title>Random Notes</title>
+  <para>
+	Two /proc pseudo-files provide diagnostic information.  This is generally
+	not useful to most users.  Power users can disable CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX_PROCFS,
+	and remove the /proc support code.  Once
+	version 2.0.0 is released, the /proc support code will be disabled by
+	default.  Available /proc pseudo-files:
+  </para>
+  <programlisting>
+	/proc/driver/via/0/info
+	/proc/driver/via/0/ac97
+  </programlisting>
+  <para>
+	This driver by default supports all PCI audio devices which report
+	a vendor id of 0x1106, and a device id of 0x3058.  Subsystem vendor
+	and device ids are not examined.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	GNU indent formatting options:
+  <programlisting>
+-kr -i8 -ts8 -br -ce -bap -sob -l80 -pcs -cs -ss -bs -di1 -nbc -lp -psl
+  </programlisting>
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	Via has graciously donated e-mail support and source code to help further
+	the development of this driver.  Their assistance has been invaluable
+	in the design and coding of the next major version of this driver.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+	The Via audio chip apparently provides a second PCM scatter-gather
+	DMA channel just for FM data, but does not have a full hardware MIDI
+	processor.  I haven't put much thought towards a solution here, but it
+	might involve using SoftOSS midi wave table, or simply disabling MIDI
+	support altogether and using the FM PCM channel as a second (input? output?)
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="changelog">
+      <title>Driver ChangeLog</title>
+
+<sect1 id="version191"><title>
+Version 1.9.1
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    DSP read/write bugfixes from Thomas Sailer.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Add new PCI id for single-channel use of Via 8233.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Other bug fixes, tweaks, new ioctls.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version1115"><title>
+Version 1.1.15
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Support for variable fragment size and variable fragment number (Rui
+    Sousa)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Fixes for the SPEED, STEREO, CHANNELS, FMT ioctls when in read &amp;
+    write mode (Rui Sousa)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Mmaped sound is now fully functional. (Rui Sousa)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Make sure to enable PCI device before reading any of its PCI
+    config information. (fixes potential hotplug problems)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Clean up code a bit and add more internal function documentation.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    AC97 codec access fixes (Adrian Cox)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Big endian fixes (Adrian Cox)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    MIDI support (Adrian Cox)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Detect and report locked-rate AC97 codecs.  If your hardware only
+    supports 48Khz (locked rate), then your recording/playback software
+    must upsample or downsample accordingly.  The hardware cannot do it.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Use new pci_request_regions and pci_disable_device functions in
+    kernel 2.4.6.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version1114"><title>
+Version 1.1.14
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Use VM_RESERVE when available, to eliminate unnecessary page faults.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version1112"><title>
+Version 1.1.12
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    mmap bug fixes from Linus.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version1111"><title>
+Version 1.1.11
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Many more bug fixes.  mmap enabled by default, but may still be buggy.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Uses new and spiffy method of mmap'ing the DMA buffer, based
+    on a suggestion from Linus.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version1110"><title>
+Version 1.1.10
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Many bug fixes.  mmap enabled by default, but may still be buggy.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version119"><title>
+Version 1.1.9
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Redesign and rewrite audio playback implementation.  (faster and smaller, hopefully)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Implement recording and full duplex (DSP_CAP_DUPLEX) support.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Make procfs support optional.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Quick interrupt status check, to lessen overhead in interrupt
+    sharing situations.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Add mmap(2) support.  Disabled for now, it is still buggy and experimental.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Surround all syscalls with a semaphore for cheap and easy SMP protection.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Fix bug in channel shutdown (hardware channel reset) code.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Remove unnecessary spinlocks (better performance).
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Eliminate "unknown AFMT" message by using a different method
+    of selecting the best AFMT_xxx sound sample format for use.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Support for realtime hardware pointer position reporting
+    (DSP_CAP_REALTIME, SNDCTL_DSP_GETxPTR ioctls)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Support for capture/playback triggering
+    (DSP_CAP_TRIGGER, SNDCTL_DSP_SETTRIGGER ioctls)
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    SNDCTL_DSP_SETDUPLEX and SNDCTL_DSP_POST ioctls now handled.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Rewrite open(2) and close(2) logic to allow only one user at
+    a time.  All other open(2) attempts will sleep until they succeed.
+    FIXME: open(O_RDONLY) and open(O_WRONLY) should be allowed to succeed.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    Reviewed code to ensure that SMP and multiple audio devices
+    are fully supported.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version118"><title>
+Version 1.1.8
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    	Clean up interrupt handler output.  Fixes the following kernel error message:
+    </para>
+  	<programlisting>
+	unhandled interrupt ...
+  	</programlisting>
+   </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+    	Convert documentation to DocBook, so that PDF, HTML and PostScript (.ps) output is readily
+	available.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version117"><title>
+Version 1.1.7
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Fix module unload bug where mixer device left registered
+  after driver exit
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version116"><title>
+Version 1.1.6
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Rewrite via_set_rate to mimic ALSA basic AC97 rate setting
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Remove much dead code
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Complete spin_lock_irqsave -> spin_lock_irq conversion in via_dsp_ioctl
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Fix build problem in via_dsp_ioctl
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Optimize included headers to eliminate headers found in linux/sound
+	</para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version115"><title>
+Version 1.1.5
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Disable some overly-verbose debugging code
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Remove unnecessary sound locks
+   </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Fix some ioctls for better time resolution
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Begin spin_lock_irqsave -> spin_lock_irq conversion in via_dsp_ioctl
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="version114"><title>
+Version 1.1.4
+</title>
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+   <listitem>
+    <para>
+ Completed rewrite of driver.  Eliminated SoundBlaster compatibility
+  completely, and now uses the much-faster scatter-gather DMA engine.
+    </para>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+</sect1>
+
+  </chapter>
+  
+  <chapter id="intfunctions">
+     <title>Internal Functions</title>
+!Isound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c
+  </chapter>
+
+</book>
+
+