[alsa-devel] is sound/arm obsolete?

Liam Girdwood lg at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu Jun 5 14:56:01 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:50 +0300, Maen Suleiman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are intending to develop a new ALSA driver for an audio unit on
> Marvell Orion SoC, should a new ALSA drivers written for ARM based
> SoCs be developed under sound/arm or under sound/soc/newsoc ? (is
> sound/arm considered as obsolete? )

It would be better to develop under soc/orion as this will allow your
DMA and I2S code to be used by others with different Orion audio
configurations. 

It may also save you development time if your target codec is already
supported !

Liam



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