[PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: amlogic: add more basic audio support

Neil Armstrong neil.armstrong at linaro.org
Fri Sep 8 05:30:33 PDT 2023


Hi,

On 15/08/2023 11:37, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> 
> On Tue 15 Aug 2023 at 09:27, Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This mini-series adds basic audio support to the P200/P201 (GXBB) and U200 (G12A)
>> reference boards. Few people likely have the original reference boards which have
>> extra audio capabilities, but the device-trees are widely [ab]used by users with
>> Android set-top boxes whose hardware is copy/pasted from the reference designs to
>> get working installs. Adding basic audio support does no harm to the real boards
>> and helps the secondary cause.
> 
> Still, this is something you have not tested on the u200 reference
> design. I believe this was already discussed in the past.
> 
> The u200 is far more complex when it comes to audio and certainly would
> not work on this no-name android device. These device are heavily
> "inspired" by the reference, but trimmed down in many aspect including
> audio capabilities - NOT copied.

I understand you point, but those changes only adds "internal" audio & basic spdif
capabilities so it won't affect the on-board audio electronics in any way.

> 
> People abusing the u200 or p200 DT does make the patchset valid

This is a reality, but still I think this patchset is valid and I'll
pick those since they are used for years out-of-tree and probably works
very fine in the reference design boards.

Neil

> 
>>
>> Christian Hewitt (3):
>>    arm64: dts: meson: add audio playback to p200
>>    arm64: dts: meson: add audio playback to p201
>>    arm64: dts: meson: add audio playback to u200
>>
>>   .../boot/dts/amlogic/meson-g12a-u200.dts      | 129 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   .../boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dts      |  60 ++++++++
>>   .../boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p201.dts      |  39 ++++++
>>   3 files changed, 228 insertions(+)
> 




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