| 1 | /* $Id: Build.txt 193 2001-09-28 12:12:51Z sandervl $ */
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| 2 |           SoundBlaster Live! OS/2 Audio driver Build Instructions 
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| 3 |           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 4 | Contents
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| 5 | ========
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| 6 | 1 Introduction
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| 7 | 2 Required tools
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| 8 | 3 Recommended tools for debugging
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| 9 | 4 Building the driver
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| 10 | 5 SBLive driver architecture
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| 11 | 6 Difference between the two kinds of 32 bits drivers
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| 12 | 
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| 13 | 1 Introduction
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| 14 | ==============
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| 15 | This document lists all the needed tools and compilers to build the SB Live
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| 16 | OS/2 audio driver.
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| 17 | It also tries to give some information about the architecture of the driver
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| 18 | and explain some technical details.
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| 19 | 
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| 20 | However, it does not attempt to explain everything. People that are not
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| 21 | familiar with either device drivers or MMPM/2 audio drivers should
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| 22 | read the PDD & MMPM/2 driver references. Although those two documents
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| 23 | are not meant for beginners, they do contain a lot of very useful information.
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| 24 | 
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| 25 | You can always email me (sandervl@xs4all.nl) if you wish to help out with the 
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| 26 | development of the driver and have some questions.
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| 27 | Please make sure you've read at least the pdd & mmpm2 references and try
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| 28 | to understand the source code before doing so.
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| 29 | 
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| 30 | 
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| 31 | 2 Required tools
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| 32 | ================
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| 33 | - Watcom C/C++ version 11.0b
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| 34 | - ALP 4.x (IBM assembler; comes with ddk)
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| 35 | - IBM OS/2 DDK (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/ddk/)
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| 36 |   - Base headers/libraries/tools (combase.zip)
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| 37 |     Due to a typo in devhelp.h, you must change the DevHelp_VMProcessToGlobal macro:
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| 38 |      USHORT DevHelp_VMProcessToGlobal(ULONG Flags, LIN LinearAddr, ULONG Length, PLIN GlobalLinearAddr);
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| 39 |      #pragma aux DevHelp_ProcessToGlobal = \
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| 40 |     to 
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| 41 |      USHORT DevHelp_VMProcessToGlobal(ULONG Flags, LIN LinearAddr, ULONG Length, PLIN GlobalLinearAddr);
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| 42 |      #pragma aux DevHelp_VMProcessToGlobal = \
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| 43 | 
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| 44 |   - MMPM/2 base                  (mmpmdd.zip)
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| 45 |   - PDD & MMPM/2 driver reference
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| 46 | 
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| 47 | 3 Recommended tools for debugging
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| 48 | =================================
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| 49 | - ICAT debugger (follow link from IBM DDK page)
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| 50 | - OS/2 Debug kernel
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| 51 | 
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| 52 | 
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| 53 | 4 Building the driver
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| 54 | =====================
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| 55 | First you must create the makefile.inc file. This is done by running
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| 56 | the Configure.cmd rexx script.
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| 57 | 
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| 58 | You can build the driver from the main directory by executing:
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| 59 |       WMAKE -f makefile.os2 /ms
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| 60 | 
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| 61 | To build the debug version of the driver (which can be used with ICAT
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| 62 | for source-level debugging) run
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| 63 |       WMAKE -f makefile.os2 DEBUG=1 /ms
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| 64 | 
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| 65 | To build the KEE enhanced version of the driver 
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| 66 |       WMAKE -f makefile.os2 KEE=1 /ms
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| 67 | 
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| 68 | 
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| 69 | 5 SBLive driver architecture
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| 70 | ============================
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| 71 | Simplified overview of the flow of control from a multimedia application
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| 72 | to the SB Live driver. (for a more complete overview, check the MMPM/2
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| 73 | Device Driver Reference; Audio Physical Device Driver Template/PDD architecture)
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| 74 | 
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| 75 |               |=============|
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| 76 |               |             |
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| 77 |               | application |
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| 78 |               |             |
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| 79 |               |=============|
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| 80 | ring 3          |        ^
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| 81 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 82 | ring 0          |        |
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| 83 |                 v        |
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| 84 |               |=============|
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| 85 |               |             |
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| 86 |           --->|   MMPM/2    |
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| 87 |           |   |             |
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| 88 |           |   |=============|
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| 89 |           |     | IOCtls |
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| 90 | SHD calls |     |        |
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| 91 | to return |     |        | IDC
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| 92 | buffers   |     |        |
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| 93 |           |     |        |
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| 94 |           |     v        v
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| 95 |           |   |-------------|    OSS cmds     |-------------|
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| 96 |           |   |             |   <--------->   |             |
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| 97 |           ----|sblive16.sys |    irqs         |sblive32.sys |
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| 98 |               |             |   ---------->   |             |
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| 99 |               |-------------|                 |-------------|
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| 100 |                         ^                        |
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| 101 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 102 | hardware
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| 103 |                    irqs |                        |
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| 104 |                         |                        | hardware programming
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| 105 |                       |==============|           |
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| 106 |                       |              |           |
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| 107 |                       | SB Live card |<-----------
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| 108 |                       |              |
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| 109 |                       |==============|
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| 110 | 
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| 111 | 
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| 112 | The drv16 directory contains the sources for the 16 bits driver that handles
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| 113 | all MMPM/2 commands and communicates (IDC) with the 32 bits core driver using
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| 114 | OSS (Linux audio api) commands.
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| 115 | Sblive32.sys contains a small wrapper that interprets the IDC commands and
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| 116 | translates them into appriate calls to the original Linux OSS driver (ioctls/
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| 117 | open/close/read/write).
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| 118 | Basically, the Linux code in sblive32 treats the 16 bits driver as a Linux
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| 119 | application trying to use the audio card.
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| 120 | 
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| 121 | During the init complete strategy call of sblive16, it sends the init command
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| 122 | to the 32 bits driver. Which ends up calling module_init in the Linux code
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| 123 | (sblive\main.c). At this point the Linux code tries to detect the sblive
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| 124 | hardware using Linux pci kernel calls.
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| 125 | All Linux kernel calls are implemented in sblive32 using OS/2 system calls.
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| 126 | (i.e. kmalloc uses DevHlp_VMAlloc)
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| 127 | 
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| 128 | The original Linux SB Live! sources have not changed for the most part.
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| 129 | An exception is the acknowledgment that part of a buffer has been played/
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| 130 | recorded. (emu10k1_waveout_bh/emu10k1_wavein_bh in sblive\audio.c)
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| 131 | OSS32_ProcessIRQ is called from those procedures to tell the 16 bits driver
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| 132 | to query the current position and return/queue buffers if needed.
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| 133 | 
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| 134 | The 16 bits driver is more or less a generic MMPM/2 driver that could be used
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| 135 | (in theory) to port any OSS Linux audio driver.
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| 136 | The wrapper and linux kernel calls implemented in the lib directory can
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| 137 | also be reused.
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| 138 | 
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| 139 | 
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| 140 | 6 Difference between the two kinds of 32 bits drivers
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| 141 | =====================================================
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| 142 | Warp Server for e-Business (and now Warp 4 too; with fixpack 13) feature
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| 143 | a new 32 bits kernel api for physical device driver (well, not entirely true).
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| 144 | 
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| 145 | The 'standard' 32 bits driver (not compiled with KEE=1) is a 32 bits compact
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| 146 | memory model driver. (cs=ds, ss!=ds; small code, large data)
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| 147 | The stack is still 16 bits and the SS and DS selectors are not identical.
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| 148 | Therefor all pointers are far by default. (32 bits far; meaning 16:32, 16
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| 149 | bits selector, 32 bits offset)
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| 150 | 
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| 151 | Using this memory model works fine, but is a bit inefficient and not ideal
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| 152 | for porting 32 bits code (which may have hidden dependencies on the 32 bits
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| 153 | flat memory model; the sblive driver has none).
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| 154 | That also explains why the standard 32 bits driver is 18kb larger than the
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| 155 | KEE version.
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| 156 | 
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| 157 | The 'enhanced' 32 bits driver uses the KEE interface to create a true 32 bits
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| 158 | driver (cs=ds=ss).
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| 159 | 
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| 160 | A small 16 bits part is still needed as our IDC, strategy and irq handlers
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| 161 | are expected to be in the 16 bits code segment.
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| 162 | An assembly file (drv32\startup.asm) takes care of the thunking that is
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| 163 | required.
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