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  1. 31 Mar, 2020 3 commits
    • Thomas Hebb's avatar
      ALSA: hda/realtek - Remove now-unnecessary XPS 13 headphone noise fixups · f36938aa
      Thomas Hebb authored 
      patch_realtek.c has historically failed to properly configure the PC
Beep Hidden Register for the ALC256 codec (among others). Depending on
your kernel version, symptoms of this misconfiguration can range from
chassis noise, picked up by a poorly-shielded PCBEEP trace, getting
amplified and played on your internal speaker and/or headphones to loud
feedback, which responds to the "Headphone Mic Boost" ALSA control,
getting played through your headphones. For details of the problem, see
the patch in this series titled "ALSA: hda/realtek - Set principled PC
Beep configuration for ALC256", which fixes the configuration.

These symptoms have been most noticed on the Dell XPS 13 9350 and 9360,
popular laptops that use the ALC256. As a result, several model-specific
fixups have been introduced to try and fix the problem, the most
egregious of which locks the "Headphone Mic Boost" control as a hack to
minimize noise from a feedback loop that shouldn't have been there in
the first place.

Now that the underlying issue has been fixed, remove all these fixups.
Remaining fixups needed by the XPS 13 are all picked up by existing pin
quirks.

This change should, for the XPS 13 9350/9360

 - Significantly increase volume and audio quality on headphones
 - Eliminate headphone popping on suspend/resume
 - Allow "Headphone Mic Boost" to be set again, making the headphone
   jack fully usable as a microphone jack too.

Fixes: 8c69729b ("ALSA: hda - Fix headphone noise after Dell XPS 13 resume back from S3")
Fixes: 423cd785 ("ALSA: hda - Fix headphone noise on Dell XPS 13 9360")
Fixes: e4c9fd10 ("ALSA: hda - Apply headphone noise quirk for another Dell XPS 13 variant")
Fixes: 1099f484 ("ALSA: hda/realtek: Reduce the Headphone static noise on XPS 9350/9360")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b649a00edfde150cf6eebbb4390e15e0c2deb39a.1585584498.git.tommyhebb@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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    • Thomas Hebb's avatar
      ALSA: hda/realtek - Set principled PC Beep configuration for ALC256 · c4473744
      Thomas Hebb authored 
      The Realtek PC Beep Hidden Register[1] is currently set by
patch_realtek.c in two different places:

In alc_fill_eapd_coef(), it's set to the value 0x5757, corresponding to
non-beep input on 1Ah and no 1Ah loopback to either headphones or
speakers. (Although, curiously, the loopback amp is still enabled.) This
write was added fairly recently by commit e3743f431143 ("ALSA:
hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236") and is a
safe default. However, it happens in the wrong place:
alc_fill_eapd_coef() runs on module load and cold boot but not on S3
resume, meaning the register loses its value after suspend.

Conversely, in alc256_init(), the register is updated to unset bit 13
(disable speaker loopback) and set bit 5 (set non-beep input on 1Ah).
Although this write does run on S3 resume, it's not quite enough to fix
up the register's default value of 0x3717. What's missing is a set of
bit 14 to disable headphone loopback. Without that, we end up with a
feedback loop where the headphone jack is being driven by amplified
samples of itself[2].

This change eliminates the update in alc256_init() and replaces it with
the 0x5757 write from alc_fill_eapd_coef(). Kailang says that 0x5757 is
supposed to be the codec's default value, so using it will make
debugging easier for Realtek.

Affects the ALC255, ALC256, ALC257, ALC235, and ALC236 codecs.

[1] Newly documented in Documentation/sound/hd-audio/realtek-pc-beep.rst

[2] Setting the "Headphone Mic Boost" control from userspace changes
this feedback loop and has been a widely-shared workaround for headphone
noise on laptops like the Dell XPS 13 9350. This commit eliminates the
feedback loop and makes the workaround unnecessary.

Fixes: e1e8c1fd ("ALSA: hda/realtek - Dell headphone has noise on unmute for ALC236")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bf22b417d1f2474b12011c2a39ed6cf8b06d3bf5.1585584498.git.tommyhebb@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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    • Thomas Hebb's avatar
      ALSA: doc: Document PC Beep Hidden Register on Realtek ALC256 · f1280904
      Thomas Hebb authored 
      This codec (among others) has a hidden set of audio routes, apparently
designed to allow PC Beep output without a mixer widget on the output
path, which are controlled by an undocumented Realtek vendor register.
The default configuration of these routes means that certain inputs
aren't accessible, necessitating driver control of the register.
However, Realtek has provided no documentation of the register, instead
opting to fix issues by providing magic numbers, most of which have been
at least somewhat erroneous. These magic numbers then get copied by
others into model-specific fixups, leading to a fragmented and buggy set
of configurations.

To get out of this situation, I've reverse engineered the register by
flipping bits and observing how the codec's behavior changes. This
commit documents my findings. It does not change any code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bd69dfdeaf40ff31c4b7b797c829bb320031739c.1585584498.git.tommyhebb@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      f1280904
  3. 30 Mar, 2020 2 commits
    • Takashi Iwai's avatar
      Merge tag 'asoc-v5.7' of... · 3c22baea
      Takashi Iwai authored 
      Merge tag 'asoc-v5.7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus

ASoC: Updates for v5.7

This is a very big update for the core since Morimoto-san has been
rather busy continuing his refactorings to clean up a lot of the cruft
that we have accumilated over the years.  We've also gained several new
drivers, including initial (but still not complete) parts of the Intel
SoundWire support.

 - Lots of refactorings to modernize the code from Morimoto-san.
 - Conversion of SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS to use imply from Geert Uytterhoeven.
 - Continued refactoring and fixing of the Intel support.
 - Soundwire and more advanced clocking support for Realtek RT5682.
 - Support for amlogic GX, Meson 8, Meson 8B and T9015 DAC, Broadcom
   DSL/PON, Ingenic JZ4760 and JZ4770, Realtek RL6231, and TI TAS2563 and
   TLV320ADCX140.
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    • Takashi Iwai's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus · aa21c3d4
      Takashi Iwai authored
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  5. 29 Mar, 2020 2 commits
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