On 23 July 2014 19:43:38 Matt Flax wrote:
On 23/07/14 18:23, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Matt Flax flatmax@flatmax.org wrote:
Hi there,
Hi Matt,
I'd suggest you include alsa-devel ML next time (added it to CC)
I saw your driver sound/soc/samsung
I am wanting to look into an I2S driver for the Exynos 5250 for eye implants.
Driver for I2S in Exynos 5 is already included in mainline kernel.
The implants use a serial bus and I am wanting to specify an I2S connection to them.
In order to do that I would need to write an I2S driver to talk to them. Their bit rates are either 300 kbps or 600 kbps. They only need I2S and not I2C ... there are not controls, simply serial data in and out.
Are you sure that your implants can talk over I2S?
Yes, we do/will have custom hardware to reconstruct the required signals from the I2S lines.
I am wondering if I can do something simple ... I notice that your driver doesn't require too much code ... Do you think it is possible for me to take a similar approach in writing my implant driver ?
Don't know, you didn't share much details on your hardware.
The hardware requires one I2S output line and one I2S input line + the clock line.
You say "Driver for I2S in Exynos 5 is already included in mainline kernel." ... do you mean that all I need is a device tree file to enable it ? If so, then can you please link me to an example device tree ... my assumption is that this I2S device will show up in alsa once the device tree is setup ?
You'd probably need some codec stub, I'm not sure if it's possible to instantiate soundcard with only i2s and without a codec.
Regards Vasily
Can you give me advice - how to start ?
Start with reading specs and try to understand how your implants work, then look at existing code and try to adapt it for your usage. Then clean it up and prepare for submitting into mainline.
thanks Matt
Regards, Vasily