HDSP release notes
From the ALSA wiki
I'm pleased to announce that ALSA now has support for the Hammerfall DSP audio interface. Details of the Hammerfall DSP are available at RME's website (www.rme-audio.com).
The driver supports:
- all sample rates
- both MIDI ports
- "simple mixer" controls to allow alsamixer to control each playback stream's volume. Remember: as usual with ALSA, the initial state is "all output muted".
- peak meters for input, output and playback, with serial clipping counters.
- a non-standard control element for the matrix mixer (this may change; do not plan long term application support around it)
Things that are not tested but should work:
- big-endian systems
- multiface i/o box
- cardbus interface
- different sample clock sync sources
Things that don't work:
- RMS meters
- Flashing the firmware into the I/O box
The driver is similar in some ways the Hammerfall driver. Most notably, it requires large chunks of physically contiguous memory. This is best provided for by loading the snd-hammerfall-mem module early during booting, which provides memory for both Hammerfall and Hammerfall DSP drivers. The module has a snd-enable option which takes a comma-separated list of 0's or 1's indicating whether or not to allocate memory for the n'th Hammerfall or Hammerfall DSP device. If you have only once such device, then snd-enable=1 will be sufficient. The module checks for installed devices, so you can always insert the module and the right thing will happen even if you have removed your Hammerfall/Hammerfall DSP cards.
I am sure there will be minor glitches along the way. I would really appreciate feedback from anyone with an H-DSP (marcus - that means you! :)
A huge thank you to RME for the foresight and sense to make available sufficient information to make this driver possible.
