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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-01-28 00:01:53 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-01-28 00:04:21 +0100
commitb09f3e78ee7bb69171411b75bd9e771fc7f24749 (patch)
treeed4d4f357a805425e19de53b6b3710150482df06 /Documentation/sound/alsa
parentccc5df058da70d1c26c72cd1c24072a89998d735 (diff)
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 <tiwai@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
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--- 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