[PATCH v2 7/7] ASoC: dt-bindings: imx-rpmsg: Add binding doc for rpmsg machine driver

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Mar 5 07:04:33 AEDT 2021


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:23 AM Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:18 AM Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 06:23:55PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
> > > Imx-rpmsg is a new added machine driver for supporting audio on Cortex-M
> > > core. The Cortex-M core will control the audio interface, DMA and audio
> > > codec, setup the pipeline, the audio driver on Cortex-A core side is just
> > > to communitcate with M core, it is a virtual sound card and don't touch
> > > the hardware.
> >
> > I don't understand why there are 2 nodes for this other than you happen
> > to want to split this into 2 Linux drivers. It's 1 h/w thing.
>
> This one is for the sound card machine driver.  Another one is
> for the sound card cpu dai driver. so there are 2 nodes.

You are explaining this to me in terms of drivers. Explain it in terms
of h/w blocks.

Rob


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