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Sebastian Leonhardt 9aafbf9ca9 STMP37xx/iMX233: reduce popping noise on power on/off (Version 1)
Version 1: this patch prolongs startup time by 2 seconds, because the
sleep happens early before other threads have started.

The patch is tested on CreativeZEN and Fuze+.

The datasheet was not very helpfull, so some experimentation was needed.
I came to the following conclusions:
* setting HP to ground:
  to prevent popping noises, the headphone output can be set to ground.
  This however must be done before any part of the audioout module is
  powered up (setting HP to ground itself will lead to a pop otherwise).
  This consequently means that HP must NOT be set to ground for powerdown
  sequence!
  Further study showed that setting HP out to ground has no audible benefit,
  controversly not setting/resetting allows for noiseless RoLo-ing.
* headphone amp class A/AB mode:
  initially the HP amp is in class A mode, and should be set to
  class AB before playing audio, as the datasheet mentions.
  If the HP output is set to ground, it must be released BEFORE
  setting class AB! Releasing from ground while in AB mode leads
  to a very loud pop!
* release HP from ground:
  as said before: never release the HP from ground if the HP amp is
  set to class AB mode. Therefore the correct order is to power up the
  headphone amp, wait some time, release HP from ground, and then
  set the amp to class AB mode.
  To prevent pop, some time is needed before releasing the HP from gnd.
  On CreativeZEN 2 sec seems to be ideal; 1 sec have no audible effect,
  1.5 sec softenes the pop to some degree.
* shutting player off
  The popping noise when shutting off is much quieter that on power up,
  so depopping measures are not absolutely necessary.
  However the power off pop can be silenced by inserting a wait time
  after the audioout block is closed and before the rest of the chip
  is powered down. The longer the better, a time of 5 sec practically
  eliminates the pop.

Note that RoLo-ing can still produce noise, because the audio device
is not properly shut down.

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               __________               __   ___.
     Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
     Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
     Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
     Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
                       \/            \/     \/    \/            \/

Build Your Own Rockbox

1. Clone 'rockbox' from git (or extract a downloaded archive).

   $ git clone git://git.rockbox.org/rockbox

     or

   $ tar xJf rockbox.tar.xz

2. Create a build directory, preferably in the same directory as the firmware/
   and apps/ directories. This is where all generated files will be written.

   $ cd rockbox
   $ mkdir build
   $ cd build

3. Make sure you have mips/m68k/arm-elf-gcc and siblings in the PATH. Make sure
   that you have 'perl' in your PATH too. Your gcc cross compiler needs to be
   a particular version depending on what player you are compiling for. These
   can be generated using the rockboxdev.sh script in the /tools/ folder of the
   source.

   $ which arm-elf-eabi-gcc
   $ which perl

4. In your build directory, run the 'tools/configure' script and enter what
   target you want to build for and if you want a debug version or not (and a
   few more questions). It'll prompt you. The debug version is for making a
   gdb version out of it. It is only useful if you run gdb towards your target
   Archos.

   $ ../tools/configure

5. *ploink*. Now you have got a Makefile generated for you.

6. Run 'make' and soon the necessary pieces from the firmware and the apps
   directories have been compiled, linked and scrambled for you.

   $ make
   $ make zip

7. unzip the rockbox.zip on your music player, reboot it and
   *smile*.

If you want to build for more than one target, just create several build
directories and create a setup for each target:

   $ mkdir build-fuzeplus
   $ cd build-fuzeplus
   $ ../tools/configure

   $ mkdir build-xduoox3
   $ cd build-xduoox3
   $ ../tools/configure

Questions anyone? Ask on the mailing list or on IRC. We'll be happy to help you!