[alsa-devel] [PATCH 03/17] ASoC: Add a generic dmaengine_pcm driver

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 04/17/2013 03:06 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 12:48 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> This sounds like it needs more than just support for custom channel names.
>> The generic driver currently expects that there is exactly one DMA channel
>> for capture and one for playback (well and in case the DAI link is simplex
>> only either one of them).
>>
>> What are these 8 channels exactly used for?
> 
> We have 7 FIFOs which can be configured either playback or capture. The last
> channel is used for debug purposes only right now.
> Basically we can dynamically configure the 8 DMA channel for playback/capture
> and the mixing of incoming streams done inside of the AESS.
> We have 7 DAIs and we have playback/capture on those (some only have playback
> some only capture some duplex). Right now we have kind of static DMA bindings
> for them, I'm working on a dynamic model right now.

Hm, if you need to re-assign the DMA channels dynamically at runtime it
maybe better to stick with a custom PCM driver. Should I drop OMAP from this
series for now?

- Lars