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Cirrus Logic Audio Card working on the Raspberry Pi 2

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi all!

 

As you might know, Cirrus Logic's main kernel source branch recently switched to 3.18.

My first thought was "Hmm, that means the Cirrus Logic card could finally work on the RPi2..."

I have built a couple of 3.18 kernels for my B+ and RPi2 and I have managed to get both models to produce sound image

 

It's still early days, i.e. there are possibly bugs and glitches to fix, but for those of you who would like to try it out I've made an image file that you can download here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzIaxMH3N5O1cmJ1bFhMcG1hc0E/view?usp=sharing

The file is a 1.3 GB zip. Uncompressed size is 3.1 GB, so it fits comfortably on a 4 GB card.


The image is based on the standard 2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy image from the Foundation that you flash to a SD card for a fresh install.

I have only added my kernels and set up the configuration files to get the card going.

It should work on the older B model  with a Wolfson Audio Card too, but I haven't tested that yet.

 

Have fun!

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Ragnar

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    Former Member over 10 years ago

    I've compared your image and a fresh install of raspbian + your archive.

    The only difference i found, was for the name of the kernel.

    in your (working) image there is no "kernel=kernel7_CL.img" in your /boot/config.txt (or commented) => so the kernel7.img is loaded.

    So i tried to rename the kernel7_CL.img into kernel7.img (saving the original before) => youpi! I don't know why, but it works now ! image

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Excellent image

     

    kernel7.img from the image is the same file as kernel7_CL.img in the tar archive.

    As you noticed that is the file a RPi2 will pick if you don't explicitly choose another one in /boot/config.txt.

    Maybe you missed the step on editing /boot/config.txt?

    On a RPi2B, also add
      kernel=kernel7_CL.img 

    or, on all others, add
      kernel=kernel_CL.img 

    to /boot/config.txt
     

     

    Anyway, you got it working and thats great!

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    Ragnar

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    the config.txt was edited like in your 2nd post...

    Strange, but it seems that the "kernel=..." in the "config.txt" is ignored for the rpi2 (or i become crazy! image)

    I will make an another try to be sure.

    One more time, Thanks for your work!

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    You're probably crazy image

     

    At the moment i have

    kernel=vmlinuz-3.18.9-v7cludlmmapfll

    in config.txt on a RPi2, and that's the kernel it boots.

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    Ragnar

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    You're probably crazy image

     

    At the moment i have

    kernel=vmlinuz-3.18.9-v7cludlmmapfll

    in config.txt on a RPi2, and that's the kernel it boots.

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    Ragnar

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    yes i am image 'cause, i just made another try and, hum, it works image

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    ragnar.jensen

     

    Thanks i followed your first post and my cirrus audio logic card can connect with PI2, one question , i want to recorder audio in the best quality for maybe 1 hour...and save in de SD card of the RPI2 files .wav , programming in python is a option?  do you have any suggestion about that?

     

    Can someone help me out?


    please

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