Research Pre Audio

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This side should cover the audio architecture used on the Palm Pre.

Hardware

The used TWL4030 PMIC covers the audio part.

Soundcards

root@castle:/var/home/root# aplay -l    
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: mcbsp2 [twl4030-i2s (mcbsp2)], device 0: omap-mcbsp-pcm [omap-mcbsp-pcm]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: mcbsp3 [btsco (mcbsp3)], device 0: omap-mcbsp-pcm [omap-mcbsp-pcm]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Scripts

Palm uses scripts to configure the lower levels of the sound system that are executed inside the kernel. Audiod triggers them over a sysfs interface.

echo "#list" > /sys/devices/platform/twl4030_audio/scdebug
for example lists you all available scripts over the kernel message output which you can view with dmesg. You can also try
#all
#volume
#init

These scripts can be triggered by writing is name as a string into

/sys/devices/platform/twl4030_audio/scrun

A good start to dive into this is sound/arm/omap-twl4030/script.c in the kernel patch from palm.