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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 193640 07-Jun-2009 ariff

Sound Mega-commit. Expect further cleanup until code freeze.

For a slightly thorough explaination, please refer to
[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html .

Summary of changes includes:

1 Volume Per-Channel (vpc). Provides private / standalone volume control
unique per-stream pcm channel without touching master volume / pcm.
Applications can directly use SNDCTL_DSP_[GET|SET][PLAY|REC]VOL, or for
backwards compatibility, SOUND_MIXER_PCM through the opened dsp device
instead of /dev/mixer. Special "bypass" mode is enabled through
/dev/mixer which will automatically detect if the adjustment is made
through /dev/mixer and forward its request to this private volume
controller. Changes to this volume object will not interfere with
other channels.

Requirements:
- SNDCTL_DSP_[GET|SET][PLAY|REC]_VOL are newer ioctls (OSSv4) which
require specific application modifications (preferred).
- No modifications required for using bypass mode, so applications
like mplayer or xmms should work out of the box.

Kernel hints:
- hint.pcm.%d.vpc (0 = disable vpc).

Kernel sysctls:
- hw.snd.vpc_mixer_bypass (default: 1). Enable or disable /dev/mixer
bypass mode.
- hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default: 1). By default, closing/opening
/dev/dsp will reset the volume back to 0 db gain/attenuation.
Setting this to 0 will preserve its settings across device
closing/opening.
- hw.snd.vpc_reset (default: 0). Panic/reset button to reset all
volume settings back to 0 db.
- hw.snd.vpc_0db (default: 45). 0 db relative to linear mixer value.

2 High quality fixed-point Bandlimited SINC sampling rate converter,
based on Julius O'Smith's Digital Audio Resampling -
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/. It includes a filter design
script written in awk (the clumsiest joke I've ever written)
- 100% 32bit fixed-point, 64bit accumulator.
- Possibly among the fastest (if not fastest) of its kind.
- Resampling quality is tunable, either runtime or during kernel
compilation (FEEDER_RATE_PRESETS).
- Quality can be further customized during kernel compilation by
defining FEEDER_RATE_PRESETS in /etc/make.conf.

Kernel sysctls:
- hw.snd.feeder_rate_quality.
0 - Zero-order Hold (ZOH). Fastest, bad quality.
1 - Linear Interpolation (LINEAR). Slightly slower than ZOH,
better quality but still does not eliminate aliasing.
2 - (and above) - Sinc Interpolation(SINC). Best quality. SINC
quality always start from 2 and above.

Rough quality comparisons:
- http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/z_comparison/

3 Bit-perfect mode. Bypasses all feeder/dsp effects. Pure sound will be
directly fed into the hardware.

4 Parametric (compile time) Software Equalizer (Bass/Treble mixer). Can
be customized by defining FEEDER_EQ_PRESETS in /etc/make.conf.

5 Transparent/Adaptive Virtual Channel. Now you don't have to disable
vchans in order to make digital format pass through. It also makes
vchans more dynamic by choosing a better format/rate among all the
concurrent streams, which means that dev.pcm.X.play.vchanformat/rate
becomes sort of optional.

6 Exclusive Stream, with special open() mode O_EXCL. This will "mute"
other concurrent vchan streams and only allow a single channel with
O_EXCL set to keep producing sound.

Other Changes:
* most feeder_* stuffs are compilable in userland. Let's not
speculate whether we should go all out for it (save that for
FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE).
* kobj signature fixups, thanks to Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
* pull out channel mixing logic out of vchan.c and create its own
feeder_mixer for world justice.
* various refactoring here and there, for good or bad.
* activation of few more OSSv4 ioctls() (see [1] above).
* opt_snd.h for possible compile time configuration:
(mostly for debugging purposes, don't try these at home)
SND_DEBUG
SND_DIAGNOSTIC
SND_FEEDER_MULTIFORMAT
SND_FEEDER_FULL_MULTIFORMAT
SND_FEEDER_RATE_HP
SND_PCM_64
SND_OLDSTEREO

Manual page updates are on the way.

Tested by: joel, Olivier SMEDTS <olivier at gid0 d org>, too many
unsung / unnamed heroes.


# 166364 31-Jan-2007 joel

s/WHETHERIN/WHETHER IN/ & s/THEPOSSIBILITY/THE POSSIBILITY/ in the
license text.

Approved by: imp


# 162933 01-Oct-2006 netchild

snd_ak452x is replaced by snd_spicds and snd_envy24ht is new.


# 162925 01-Oct-2006 ariff

Connect snd_hda(4) to build process...

Add support for Intel High Definition Audio Controller.

This driver make a special guarantee that "playback" works
on majority hardwares with minimal or without specific vendor
quirk.

This driver is a product of collaborative effort made by:

Stephane E. Potvin <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>
Maxime Guillaud <bsd-ports@mguillaud.net>
Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org>

....and various people from freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org

Refer to snd_hda(4) for features and issues.

Welcome To HDA.

Sponsored by: Defenxis Sdn. Bhd.


# 160386 15-Jul-2006 netchild

- Connect the snd_emu10kx driver to the build. [1]
- Bump __FreeBSD_version, no need to build the port now.

Submitted by: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru> [1]


# 159693 17-Jun-2006 netchild

Load the envy24 driver in the meta-module too.


# 159682 17-Jun-2006 netchild

Remove the snd_es1888 module now that it isn't build anymore.

Noticed by: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com>


# 154709 23-Jan-2006 joel

Sort list of modules.

Approved by: ariff


# 152851 27-Nov-2005 ariff

Support for ATI IXP 200 / 300 / 400 series audio controllers.


# 139749 05-Jan-2005 imp

Start each of the license/copyright comments with /*-, minor shuffle of lines


# 132199 15-Jul-2004 phk

Do a pass over all modules in the kernel and make them return EOPNOTSUPP
for unknown events.

A number of modules return EINVAL in this instance, and I have left
those alone for now and instead taught MOD_QUIESCE to accept this
as "didn't do anything".


# 125195 29-Jan-2004 mr

Add dependency to snd_via8233


# 79047 01-Jul-2001 cg

intel ich/ich2 driver - this needs some work but is functional enough for
the impatient.

Hardware...
Provided by: ps
Lost by: <censored>
Found by: <censored>
Not delivered by: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org>
Retrieved by: greid, Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk>
Delivered by: Andrew McKay <andy@openirc.co.uk>

PR: kern/25507
Submitted by: Katsurajima Naoto <raven@katsurajima.seya.yokohama.jp>


# 75885 23-Apr-2001 orion

Initial version of Avance Logic ALS4000 pcm driver.


# 74429 18-Mar-2001 orion

pcm driver for S3 Sonicvibes chipset.

Reviewed by: Cameron Grant


# 71901 01-Feb-2001 scottl

Driver for the ESS Maestro3 and Allegro sound chips. Note that due to the
amount of GPL'd firmware in the driver, it will only be built as a module.

Approved by: cg


# 68140 31-Oct-2000 cg

switch over to new sb8/sb16 code


# 67806 28-Oct-2000 cg

add commented-out dependancies on the new sb8 and sb16 drivers


# 66302 23-Sep-2000 jhb

Enable the snd_maestro module and have the snd_driver module depend on it.

Approved by: cg


# 64466 09-Aug-2000 nsayer

Missed a step when activating the solo driver.


# 64441 08-Aug-2000 cg

activate via82c686 audio driver


# 62484 03-Jul-2000 cg

do-nothing module that depends on all sound drivers