[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC

[Timur Tabi]

Mark Brown wrote:

> The machine support code (fabric driver in PowerPC terms, I think?)
> tells the core how everything is connected together by registering
> devices representing the links (eg, I2S) between the codecs, CPU and
> other devices.  The ASoC core is then responsible for ensuring that all
> the required components are present before it registers with the ALSA
> core.

I'm no expert on this, but I think from the PowerPC point-of-view, the *ideal* 
situation would be if the ASoC fabric driver were generic, maybe even part of 
ASoC itself, and everything it needed could be obtained from the device tree.

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale