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

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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