From b09f3e78ee7bb69171411b75bd9e771fc7f24749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:53 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hda - Allow override more fields via patch loader Allow the override of vendor-id, subsystem-id, revision-id and chip name via patch loading. Updated the document, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/sound') diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt index 6325bec06a72..f4dd3bf99d12 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt @@ -452,6 +452,33 @@ Similarly, the lines after `[verb]` are parsed as `init_verbs` sysfs entries, and the lines after `[hint]` are parsed as `hints` sysfs entries, respectively. +Another example to override the codec vendor id from 0x12345678 to +0xdeadbeef is like below: +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + [codec] + 0x12345678 0xabcd1234 2 + + [vendor_id] + 0xdeadbeef +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +In the similar way, you can override the codec subsystem_id via +`[subsystem_id]`, the revision id via `[revision_id]` line. +Also, the codec chip name can be rewritten via `[chip_name]` line. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + [codec] + 0x12345678 0xabcd1234 2 + + [subsystem_id] + 0xffff1111 + + [revision_id] + 0x10 + + [chip_name] + My-own NEWS-0002 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + The hd-audio driver reads the file via request_firmware(). Thus, a patch file has to be located on the appropriate firmware path, typically, /lib/firmware. For example, when you pass the option -- cgit v1.2.3