On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 05:34:36PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
Mark Brown wrote:
We should do though we don't currently - see the recent discussion about the ice drivers. There are some PC sound cards (mostly high end or old ones, or tuner cards) which have a setup like ASoC where there's a CODEC on an I2C bus and a "platform" which in this case is a PCI type device. At a high level they look the same as embedded hardware with several chips glued together in software.
Right. In near future, we'd need to move up/down some ASoC code pieces into ALSA core so that people won't misunderstand.
I think from a code structure point of view we're probably mostly fine as is (in that ASoC is sitting in parallel with more integrated sound card architectures) - except for DAPM mostly ASoC is just thin wrappers for the core which split things up for multiple devices. We'd need to deal with that layering somehow if we were merging stuff in.