Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:03:14 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Manuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=FChn?= <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound on wandboard-quad Message-ID: <1531591394.21781.13.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20180712180858.GA60719@freebsd-t420.fritz.box> References: <20180712180858.GA60719@freebsd-t420.fritz.box>
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On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 20:08 +0200, Manuel Stühn wrote: > Hi, > > is there any support for sound on the imx6-based wandboard quad? The > wiki-page says no, but there seem to be some drivers (imx6_ssi.c > imx6_audmux.c) which suggest some sound context. Unfortunately i > don't know > how to activate them. These drivers are marked as "optional sound" in > "files.imx6". What does this mean? In a verbose boot of a recent > CURRENT > (r335134) I do see the following line: > > [..] > simplebus2: <ssi@2028000> mem 0x2028000-0x202bfff irq 68 compat > fsl,imx6q-ssi (no driver attached) > [..] > > How can the driver be attached? > > Thanks > -- > Manuel I begin looking into this a few days ago, and got as far as discovering that we have some drivers, but they need a binary firmware blob for the imx6 sdma engine. This morning I discovered that the firmware has been released by NXP with a permissive enough license that I think we can include it in the base freebsd source, I just have to learn how to do that. -- Ian
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