[PATCH 3/4] ASoC: mediatek: mt8195: separate the common code from machine driver

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Nov 5 08:38:51 PDT 2021


On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 12:11:55PM +0800, Trevor Wu wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 15:39 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I don't follow why the DSP support requires a new driver?  Shouldn't
> > all
> > systems with the DSP present be using it?

> We need to keep the solution without DSP, so we can replace DSP
> solution with non-DSP when it's required. But when we introduce SOF for
> DSP control, there will be more routes in machine driver and device
> tree usage is different from the original. So it's hard to share the
> same driver for these two solutions.

We shouldn't be requiring people to load completely different drivers
based on software configuration, what if a system wants to bypass the
DSP in some but not all configurations?  Can we not just have controls
allowing users to route round the DSP where appropriate?
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