[alsa-devel] SoC sound support for imx27

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:54:28AM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:

> It seems the documentation in the "asoc-v2-dev" 
> (Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/) is still v1, isn't it?

Yes.

> I'm confused how to link the pcm-layer and the transmission layer together. 
> pxa2xx-i2s.c registers a codec-dai (line 346), while the imx-ssi.c registers 
> (line 864) a platform-dai (internally called a cpu_dai. BTW: why a different 
> name?). I _believe_ the CPU DAI tries to connect the CPU-pcm to the 
> transmission interface like ssi or i2s on the same chip. But both 
> implementations are using the same layering (pcm-dma and ssi/i2s), but 
> registering different DAIs. 

The i.MX code is correct here.  

The PXA I2S code isn't a good example to use - it doesn't compile at the
minute due to changes in the underlying PXA platform code - and has only
been translated mechanically for ASoC v2.  If you're looking for
examples then the most heavily tested in-tree configurations for ASoC v2
are:

 - i.MX31 I2S with WM8350
 - PXA3xx AC97 with WM9713

> Now I have an ssi driver for my CPU (to be more precise: Two instances of it, 
> when I registering two ssi devices in my BSP file). But how to tell the CPU 
> pcm-layer which one it should use (and for what purpose, play, capture)? And 
> only the ssi driver itself knows how to interact with the DMA controller. But 
> this information is needed in the CPU pcm-layer as it setup the DMA.

The CPU DAI has a dma_data member intended for this purpose - it can set
up information the DMA driver will need in there for the DMA driver to
pick up when it needs it.  The PXA code sets this up in hw_params since
the DMA configuration depends on if the stream is mono or stereo but
there's no need to set it up that late if you don't have a similar
requirement.

> Does a list exists, where I can store driver's private data in each layer 
> (mapped iomem addresses for example)? And how to access it, when I only get 
> a "struct snd_pcm_substream" as a parameter?

Yes.  ASoC sets the private_data of snd_pcm_substream to point to the
struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime for the substream.  That in turn contains
pointers to the platform, codec and CPU DAIs.  Each of those has a
private_data member which you can use.