HD-Audio DP-MST Support

To support DP MST audio, HD Audio hdmi codec driver introduces virtual pin and dynamic pcm assignment.

Virtual pin is an extension of per_pin. The most difference of DP MST from legacy is that DP MST introduces device entry. Each pin can contain several device entries. Each device entry behaves as a pin.

As each pin may contain several device entries and each codec may contain several pins, if we use one pcm per per_pin, there will be many PCMs. The new solution is to create a few PCMs and to dynamically bind pcm to per_pin. Driver uses spec->dyn_pcm_assign flag to indicate whether to use the new solution.

PCM

To be added

Pin Initialization

Each pin may have several device entries (virtual pins). On Intel platform, the device entries number is dynamically changed. If DP MST hub is connected, it is in DP MST mode, and the device entries number is 3. Otherwise, the device entries number is 1.

To simplify the implementation, all the device entries will be initialized when bootup no matter whether it is in DP MST mode or not.

Connection list

DP MST reuses connection list code. The code can be reused because device entries on the same pin have the same connection list.

This means DP MST gets the device entry connection list without the device entry setting.

Jack

Presume:

  • MST must be dyn_pcm_assign, and it is acomp (for Intel scenario);

  • NON-MST may or may not be dyn_pcm_assign, it can be acomp or !acomp;

So there are the following scenarios:

  1. MST (&& dyn_pcm_assign && acomp)

  2. NON-MST && dyn_pcm_assign && acomp

  3. NON-MST && !dyn_pcm_assign && !acomp

Below discussion will ignore MST and NON-MST difference as it doesn’t impact on jack handling too much.

Driver uses struct hdmi_pcm pcm[] array in hdmi_spec and snd_jack is a member of hdmi_pcm. Each pin has one struct hdmi_pcm * pcm pointer.

For !dyn_pcm_assign, per_pin->pcm will assigned to spec->pcm[n] statically.

For dyn_pcm_assign, per_pin->pcm will assigned to spec->pcm[n] when monitor is hotplugged.

Build Jack

  • dyn_pcm_assign

    Will not use hda_jack but use snd_jack in spec->pcm_rec[pcm_idx].jack directly.

  • !dyn_pcm_assign

    Use hda_jack and assign spec->pcm_rec[pcm_idx].jack = jack->jack statically.

Unsolicited Event Enabling

Enable unsolicited event if !acomp.

Monitor Hotplug Event Handling

  • acomp

    pin_eld_notify() -> check_presence_and_report() -> hdmi_present_sense() -> sync_eld_via_acomp().

    Use directly snd_jack_report() on spec->pcm_rec[pcm_idx].jack for both dyn_pcm_assign and !dyn_pcm_assign

  • !acomp

    hdmi_unsol_event() -> hdmi_intrinsic_event() -> check_presence_and_report() -> hdmi_present_sense() -> hdmi_prepsent_sense_via_verbs()

    Use directly snd_jack_report() on spec->pcm_rec[pcm_idx].jack for dyn_pcm_assign. Use hda_jack mechanism to handle jack events.

Others to be added later