[alsa-devel] [PATCH 05/11] ASoC: hdac_hdmi: Add multichannel support

[Subhransu S. Prusty]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:25:33AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> -	/* Only stereo supported as of now */
> -	cvt->params.channels_min = cvt->params.channels_max = 2;
> +	chans = get_wcaps(hdac, cvt->nid);
> +	chans = get_wcaps_channels(chans);
> +
> +	cvt->params.channels_min = 2;
> +
> +	if (chans <= 16) {
> +		cvt->params.channels_max = chans;
> +		if (chans > hdmi->chmap.channels_max)
> +			hdmi->chmap.channels_max = chans;
> +	}t
> 
> 
> Are you sure about this? HDMI can only handle 8 channels in Layout
> 2. There's no support for 16 ch.

I copied this change form patch_hdmi.c. From the git history I couldn't
find why it is 16 ch. May be Takashi/Mengdong/Libin can confirm on this?

Regards,
Subhransu

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