alsatplg - ALSA Topology Compiler

Author

       Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

Bugs

       None known.

Copyright

       GPLv2+

                                                   2018-10-09                                        ALSATPLG(1)

Description

       alsatplg  (ALSA Topology compiler) is a program to compile topology configuration file to the binary file
       for the kernel drivers.

       Current audio drivers typically hard code topology  information  in  the  driver  sources:  This  tightly
       couples  the audio driver to the development board making it time consuming to modify a driver to work on
       a different devices. The driver is also tightly coupled to the DSP firmware version meaning extra care is
       needed to keep the driver and firmware version in sync.  New firmware features also mean driver updates.

       The ALSA topology project removes the need for re-writing or porting audio drivers to  different  devices
       or  different  firmwares: Drivers have no hard coded topology data meaning a single driver can be used on
       different devices by updating the topology data from the file system.  Firmware  updates  can  be  pushed
       without  having  to  update  the drivers. The new firmware just needs to include an updated topology file
       describing the update.

Files

       The master topology files for each supported sound card are in /usr/share/alsa/topology.

       For    example,    the    master    use    case    file    for    the    broadwell     card     is     in
       /usr/share/alsa/topology/broadwell/broadwell.conf, this file describes the audio hardware for the driver.

       For more details on the syntax of UCM files, see the alsa-lib source code:
        <http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=blob;f=src/topology/parser.c>

Name

       alsatplg - ALSA Topology Compiler

Options

       Available options:

          -h,--help
                 this help

          -V,--version
                 show the utility version and versions of used libraries

          -c,--compileFILE
                 source configuration file for the compilation

          -d,--decodeFILE
                 source binary topology file for the decode

          -n,--normalizeFILE
                 parse and save the configuration file in the normalized format

          -u,--dumpFILE
                 parse and save the configuration file in the specified format

          -o,--outputFILE
                 output file

          -v,--verboseLEVEL
                 set verbose level

          -s,--sort
                 sort the configuration identifiers (set for normalization)

          -x,--nocheck
                 save the configuration without additional integrity check

          -z,--dapm-nosort
                 do not sort DAPM graph items (like in version 1.2.1-)