ucm2: USB-Audio: add Topping M62 configuration
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alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf pull request #826 was edited from NTMan: ucm2: USB-Audio: add Topping M62 configuration The M62 exposes a single ten channel playback PCM and a single sixteen channel capture PCM. The ten playback channels are not a surround layout: they are five independent stereo buses that the card's own mixer sums into its outputs, named Playback 1/2 to Playback 9/10 in the manual. The descriptor declares no channel positions at all -- bmChannelConfig is 0x00000000 on both the ten channel and the sixteen channel terminal -- and the card exposes no ALSA channel map either, neither a kcontrol nor a /proc entry. Without a profile the host therefore invents one: PipeWire fills ten unnamed channels with its default surround layout, so the desktop believes in a centre, an LFE and a rear that the hardware does not have, or else hands out AUX0..AUX9. Both readings break more than cosmetics: the balance control and the speaker test have nothing to work with, and any per device equalisation carries ten channel keys where two are meant. Each bus is therefore published as its own stereo device, split out of the one PCM. The five are not marked conflicting: they may play at once, which is the point of having five. What the card does declare is channel NAMES. iChannelNames points at "Playback 1" on the playback terminal and at "Analogue 1" on the capture terminal, each the first of a consecutive run of string descriptors, and the run reads Analogue 1, Analogue 2, AUX 1, AUX 2, BT 1, BT 2, Mobile 1, Mobile 2 and Loopback 1 to 8. macOS displays exactly those because Core Audio follows that field. Every name in this profile comes from there. Linux surfaces none of it: ALSA carries channel positions through chmap and has no notion of a channel name, so the host sees an anonymous sixteen and this profile is where the names can live. The order was confirmed by measurement as well, one column at a time -- feeding the microphone input lights column 0, and a headphone to AUX loop lights columns 2 and 3. The inputs are therefore published under the names the card's own panel and control application use: IN 1, IN 2, AUX, BT and OTG IN. The two microphone channels are named after the card's mic channels and not after jacks, because IN 1 is switched on the card between its own 6.3 mm jack, the 3.5 mm jack and the headset jack; that switch lives in the card's own panel and is not visible to the driver, so a jack name would be a claim the configuration cannot back. IN 1 and IN 2 are also offered together as IN 1 + 2. A balanced stereo source -- a synthesiser, a mixer's main output -- arrives on both microphone channels at once, and offering it only as two mono devices makes the desktop pick one half of it. It conflicts with the halves rather than coexisting with them, since the same two columns cannot be two devices at the same time. Bluetooth and Mobile carry audio, and all four inputs record at once: a sixteen channel recording with a phone on Bluetooth and another on OTG shows signal on the analogue, AUX, Bluetooth and Mobile columns simultaneously. The eight loopback returns do not, and are left undeclared until one of them is seen to carry a sample. They stay silent with Loopback 5/6 assigned to Bluetooth and Loopback 7/8 to OTG IN in the vendor control panel, and with those loopback meters active in the panel itself -- the loop is built and audible inside the card and does not reach the USB capture stream. Eight always silent entries in a sound panel would be eight inputs that record nothing, so they wait for an answer from the vendor. The card keeps all ten playback channels in one mixer element and all sixteen capture columns in another, so the per bus and per input volumes come from a control remap by channel index, in the same shape the Behringer UMC204HD profile uses. The card has three operating modes, switched from its own panel, and all three keep the same USB id. Mobile Mode is a plain stereo device with an honest FL FR channel map on both directions and needs no profile; applying this one to it would ask a two channel PCM for ten. The mode is encoded in the high byte of bcdDevice, 01xx Mobile, 02xx Live Streaming, 03xx Pro Audio, so the profile is selected only for the latter two. Live Streaming and Pro Audio have identical channel layouts and differ only in the rates they offer, 44.1 and 48 kHz against those plus 88.2 and 96 kHz. Tested on Fedora with alsa-lib 1.2.16 and PipeWire in all three modes: in Live Streaming and Pro Audio the five sinks and the named sources appear as expected, playback lands on the intended pair, each remapped element moves only its own channels, and a sixteen column recording confirms the input columns; in Mobile Mode the card is left to the generic configuration. Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <[email protected]> Attached alsa-info from all three modes. The `bcdDevice` value is what the profile keys on: | Mode | bcdDevice | Playback | Capture | Rates (kHz) | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [alsa-info-MobileMode.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/30801211/alsa-info-MobileMode.txt) | 0145 | 2ch, FL FR | 2ch, FL FR | 44.1, 48 | not applied | | [alsa-info-LiveStreamingMode.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/30801208/alsa-info-LiveStreamingMode.txt)| 0248 | 10ch | 16ch | 44.1, 48 | applied | | [alsa-info-ProAudioMode.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/30801204/alsa-info-ProAudioMode.txt) | 0327 | 10ch | 16ch | 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 | applied | In the two ten channel modes the descriptor declares the channel map `FL FR FC LFE RL RR FLC FRC RC SL`, which the hardware does not have: those are five stereo buses. Mobile Mode declares `FL FR` on both directions and is left to the generic configuration. Request URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/pull/826 Patch URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf/pull/826.patch Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-ucm-conf