[LinuxBIOS] Geode GX1/5530: How to forward SMI to a regular IRQ

[Juergen Beisert]

Hi Ollie,

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 20:30, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 20:05 +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> > ALSA wants to be informed when a buffer is transmitted to the sound
> > device (and the next begins). Thats on reason. CS5530's master DMA
> > generates an SMI whenever it jumps to the next buffer to transmitt.
> > The other reason is, if I do not read back the SMI status registers until
> > a second jump to another block happens the sound hardware stops with a
> > bus error.
> > So my answer to your question is: Yes, only to translate the SMI to a DMA
> > completion IRQ.
> > There are some registers in this audio hardware to trigger a regular
> > interrupt in software from inside an SMI routine. Maybe this could be a
> > starting point.
>
> Now the problem is you have to write a bunch of code to load and
> initialize your 2 line SMI->IRQ translator. Is VSA source code for
> GX2 freely from AMD or not?
>
> BTW, how "native" is your driver? Do you rd/wrmsr all the operations?

rd/wrmsr? What does it mean?

I am using the native PCI hardware and its registers only. AC97 works, I can 
configure the AC97 codec. Only sending/capturing audio data is missing...

Juergen