[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/5] ASoC: Docs: Platform update

Liam Girdwood liam.r.girdwood at linux.intel.com
Mon Sep 23 13:13:59 CEST 2013


Update the platform class driver documentation and bring it up to date
with the current code base. This includes multi component and DSP.

Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood at linux.intel.com>
---
 Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
index d57efad..3a08a2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ASoC Platform Driver
 ====================
 
-An ASoC platform driver can be divided into audio DMA and SoC DAI configuration
-and control. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must have no board
-specific code.
+An ASoC platform driver class can be divided into audio DMA drivers, SoC DAI
+drivers and DSP drivers. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must
+have no board specific code.
 
 Audio DMA
 =========
@@ -64,3 +64,16 @@ Each SoC DAI driver must provide the following features:-
  5) Suspend and resume (optional)
 
 Please see codec.txt for a description of items 1 - 4.
+
+
+SoC DSP Drivers
+===============
+
+Each SoC DSP driver usually supplies the following features :-
+
+ 1) DAPM graph
+ 2) Mixer controls
+ 3) DMA IO to/from DSP buffers (if applicable)
+ 4) Definition of DSP front end (FE) PCM devices.
+
+Please see DPCM.txt for a description of item 4.
-- 
1.8.1.2



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