Enabling DAPM for Dummy DAIs

[Sridharan, Ranjani]

On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 13:37 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:21:40PM +0000, Sridharan, Ranjani wrote:
> > Hi Mark/Takashi,
> 
> Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at
> something
> substantially less than 80 columns.  Doing this makes your messages
> much
> easier to read and reply to.
> 
> > What would your recommendation be to get around this problem in
> > SOF? Thanks for your help.
> 
> Actively using the dummy CODEC at runtime isn't a great idea at the
> best
> of times, things would be a lot easier if you used something with
> actual
> audio paths for testing - as far as I can see the issue is that
> you've
> told the system that there's nothing connected which is reasonably
> being
> interpreted as there being no need to power anything on.  If you
> intend
> this to represent an actual connection it would be better to use a
> simple CODEC with no software control rather than something that
> explicitly means there is nothing connected.
Thanks, Mark. But I am still confused by what you mean by a simple
codec here. Would this simple codec be registered by the SOF platform
driver?

Thanks,
Ranjani