[alsa-devel] ASoC: Dynamic CODEC DAI

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

> Please excuse my lack of understanding about AC97. There is a codec
> driver /sound/soc/codec/ac97.c. However, only one DAI is defined and
> supports both playback/capture with 2 as max channels. I don't see how
> static CODEC DAI definition is going to satisfy my requirements. I am
> still bounded to DAI link structure definition which takes only one
> CODEC DAI. In this case with ac97.c, I am still limited to work with
> pre-defined CODEC DAI in ac97.c  Is there an example for grouping ac97
> channels?

In theory AC97 can convey multiple slots (12 if I am not mistaken). It's
somewhat similar to SLIMbus, but with a fixed slot allocation, no bit clock
scalability and it's not truly bidirectional. The limitation to stereo
reflects codec limitations, not the standard.