[andraudio] Using an external audio sound card

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Take a look at TI's audio HAL and kernel for how we do it on Blaze:

     Project: http://omapzoom.org/?p=device/ti/common-open.git;a=summary
     Branch: p-ics-mr1
     File: audio/audio_hw.c

     Project: http://omapzoom.org/?p=kernel/omap.git;a=summary
     Branch: p-android-omap-3.0
     File: arch/arm/configs/blaze_defconfig

On blaze if you plug in a USB audio device, all audio will be routed to 
the device.  YMMV with the SoC on the Novo.

-gabriel

On 04/23/2012 08:29 AM, Mauro Ciancio wrote:
> Hello, I'm back looking for some pointers.
> I have a rooted Novo 7 Paladin running ICS 4.0.3.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make it work with externals USB speakers?
> I read the issue raised at Google:
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24614#makechanges but,
> as Gabriel said, I'm really interested in hacking the device.
>
> Any kind of information is really appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards.
> --
> Mauro Ciancio
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
> <gabrbedd at gmail.com <mailto:gabrbedd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/26/2012 10:52 PM, Ross Bencina wrote:
>
>         On 27/02/2012 1:33 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
>
>             just get the sources for the audio HAL
>             (/system/lib/hw/audio.primary.__<device-name>.so) and change the
>             period/buffer size that it uses with ALSA.
>
>
>         Hi Gabriel,
>
>         I'm a little out of touch, so forgive my ignorant questions:
>
>         - Last time I checked it wasn't clear whether all Android
>         hardware even
>         used ALSA, what's the status of that?
>
>
>     ALSA is optional.  Whoever writes the HAL can do it by any means necc.
>
>     In ICS, it's typical for a hardware device to use the kernel ALSA
>     and then use the tinyalsa lib (instead of libasound).
>
>
>         - There's no licence requirement that the source code to
>         /system/lib/hw/audio.primary.<__device-name>.so be available is
>         there?
>
>
>     No, there is not.  That's part of the reason for dumping libasound.
>
>     However, the silicone vendors (TI, Qualcom, etc.) tend to provide
>     them for their platform.
>
>     -gabriel
>
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