UPDATE 20-01-2020: Now the A20 HDMI Audio driver patches are submitted and KODI images with working HDMI Audio are on our ftp
We blogged few weeks ago about the KODI image done for A20 and A64 by our friends Dimitar Gamishev and Stefan Saraev.
A64 had everything working fine, but the A20 image had no HDMI audio, as there is no such driver in the mainline kernel. This of course made A20 not useful for media center.
We decided to try to solve this problem by ourselves by writing this missing driver and today we have success!
The audio driver for HDMI is working, but is still far from complete as we have to add channel management etc, but with our driver we can hear audio via the HDMI with A20!
We will complete and send the patches to mainline after our Christmas-New Year vacation, so somewhere in January the KODI image (and of course all Olimex official images) for A20 will be updated and will have HDMI audio too!
olimex 
Dec 20, 2019 @ 13:07:39
awesome!
Dec 20, 2019 @ 13:47:25
Great! Thanks for doing that extra work of pushing it to mainline, that is much appreciated!
Dec 20, 2019 @ 16:16:57
Thanks a lot
Dec 20, 2019 @ 22:57:59
Yay! I can’t wait. Thank you!
Dec 22, 2019 @ 07:33:04
Well done!
Dec 24, 2019 @ 19:06:00
how download? where link?
Dec 27, 2019 @ 14:52:12
Congratz ! can’t wait to see the link to it !
Jan 21, 2020 @ 22:15:50
Fot those that missed the update, links to working images are now at the top of it 🙂
Feb 01, 2020 @ 16:21:17
don`t work any plygins
Feb 23, 2020 @ 07:09:25
Hello, Nice to have a patch for hdmi audio 🙂
I was running to apply it on top of 5.5.5 kernel,
But kernel compilation fails with the error:
‘drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_hdmi_audio.o: In function `sun4i_hdmi_audio_startup’:
sun4i_hdmi_audio.c:(.text+0x324): undefined reference to `snd_pcm_hw_constraint_eld’
drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_hdmi_audio.o: In function `sun4i_hdmi_audio_create’:
sun4i_hdmi_audio.c:(.text+0x3b8): undefined reference to `devm_snd_dmaengine_pcm_register’
sun4i_hdmi_audio.c:(.text+0x3d2): undefined reference to `devm_snd_soc_register_component’
sun4i_hdmi_audio.c:(.text+0x476): undefined reference to `devm_snd_soc_register_card’
drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_hdmi_audio.o: In function `.LANCHOR0′:
sun4i_hdmi_audio.c:(.rodata+0x0): undefined reference to `snd_dmaengine_pcm_prepare_slave_config’
Makefile:1078: recipe for target ‘vmlinux’ failed
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1′
Does any one knows why it fails to compile?
thanks in advance
Best Regards
tux
Feb 29, 2020 @ 04:10:49
I applied v1, and not v3, sorry, my mistake 🙂
v3 only works if you connect Display..
Some hdmi dongles(if not majority) have a 3.5mm Jack for audio, unfortunatly you also need a display :S
Apr 02, 2020 @ 20:21:21
no internet connection with revision K 😦
Apr 02, 2020 @ 20:46:34
ethernet on rev. K requires changes to code (hardware is not broken) – workaround is to lower speed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911560#26
Apr 02, 2020 @ 21:28:08
Seems the latest patch pushed upstream is from late January, with latest comment from late February indicating that a new revision is needed: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11354381/
Jun 06, 2020 @ 06:58:51
~# cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/info
card: 0
device: 0
subdevice: 0
stream: PLAYBACK
id: SUN4I-HDMI PCM 1c16000.hdmi-0
name: SUN4I-HDMI PCM 1c16000.hdmi-0
subname: subdevice #0
class: 0
subclass: 0
subdevices_count: 1
subdevices_avail: 1
~# cat /proc/asound/devices
0: [ 0] : control
16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
33: : timer
~# cat /proc/asound/pcm
00-00: SUN4I-HDMI PCM 1c16000.hdmi-0 : SUN4I-HDMI PCM 1c16000.hdmi-0 : playback 1
~# cat /proc/asound/timers
G0: system timer : 4000.000us (10000000 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
I can test and hear sound with:
‘speaker-test -c2 -twav’
but on desktop sound appears mutted 😦
I don’t really know how to solve it..
root@OLime2:~# amixer controls
numid=1,iface=PCM,name=’ELD’
root@OLime2:~# amixer cget numid=1
numid=1,iface=PCM,name=’ELD’
; type=BYTES,access=r–v—-,values=128
: values=0x10,0x00,0x07,0x00,0x66,0x12,0x00,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x1e,0x6d,0x64,0x56,0x4c,0x32,0x32,0x32,0x57,0x00,0x09,0x07,0x07,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00
root@OLime2:~# amixer cset numid=1 50%
amixer: Control default element write error: Operation not permitted
Jul 05, 2020 @ 15:14:16
Any news about this? I would love to have audio in the “normal” distro
Jul 07, 2020 @ 10:06:11
the first patch was not accepted, too much work to re-write everything, Stefan is no longer working for Olimex, so it’s up to him when he will do it
Jul 07, 2020 @ 11:20:55
Thank you for your reply!
That is unfortunate.
Could you apply the patch to the armbian images that you have available?
Jul 07, 2020 @ 12:28:12
Daniel: You could yourself promote the existing draft patch to Armbian developers – as also mentioned previously, the patch is here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11354381/
Jul 07, 2020 @ 12:39:43
I have never compiled a kernel or a distro. And my previous experience trying to compile someone else’s code has been quite disappointing.
And then even if I succeed, no one else is going to be able to take advantage of my work.
Jul 07, 2020 @ 12:47:16
By “promote the existing draft patch” I do not mean develop it further, but file an issue suggesting its adoption, here: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues
Jul 07, 2020 @ 12:57:34
Issue submitted!
Thanks for the suggestion
Jul 17, 2020 @ 20:37:59
that’s great news – thanks for pushing it, Daniel!
Aug 26, 2020 @ 10:45:47
For the record, the patch pushed by Daniel Sousa to Armbian is https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/2084 and was accepted on July 17th: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2096
Nov 05, 2020 @ 21:10:19
How can I build an image with this path and an updated Kodi? I can’t access the addons repository.