[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] ASoC: fsl-ssi: ac97-slave support

Markus Pargmann mpa at pengutronix.de
Sat Apr 13 23:55:35 EST 2013


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 03:40:04PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 04/13/2013 03:32 PM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:35:02PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> >> On 04/07/2013 10:08 PM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:39:31PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> >>>> On 04/07/2013 09:25 PM, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This series adds DT support for phycore-ac97 using the fsl-ssi driver. In
> >>>>> version 2 I discarded most of the imx-ssi work and integrated the ac97-slave
> >>>>> support in fsl-ssi, including support for imx-pcm-fiq as alternative to dma.
> >>>>> There are some other changes to get phycore-ac97 working. The first two patches
> >>>>> have notes about the detailed changes since version 1. The rest of the patches
> >>>>> is new and necessary for the ac97-slave support.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Markus
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> The DMA PCM related changes won't apply anymore due to the recent dmaengine
> >>>> PCM cleanups. I've also been working on a more generic dmaengine PCM driver
> >>>> which has DT support and can be used by imx. The work in progress patches
> >>>> can be found here:
> >>>> https://github.com/lclausen-adi/linux-2.6/commits/asoc-dmaengine-cleanups
> >>>>
> >>>> - Lars
> >>>
> >>> Okay, I will rebase it for v3 onto your committed cleanups and will have
> >>> a look on your latest patches.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It might be a good idea to rebase it ontop of the generic dmaengine driver
> >> patches right away, since it will simplify things quite a bit.
> > 
> > I rebased the series onto your branch now. But there is a small problem
> > with the DMA handling.
> > 
> > Currently you pass the device pointer into snd_dmaengine_pcm_register
> > and use it to request the dma channels. At least for imx-pcm-audio
> > driver, it would be useful to pass a second device just for the dma
> > requests. Otherwise imx-pcm-audio needs devicetree bindings, but I think
> > the dma properties belong to fsl-ssi.
> > 
> 
> I though about that as well, just initialize of_node of the newly allocated
> imx-pcm-audio platform device to that of the parent device. That should work
> nicely.

Okay, I wasn't sure if this is good practice, but then I will do it
like this.

Regards,

Markus

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