On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:03:38 +0100, Subhransu S. Prusty wrote:
Hi Takashi,
Though, the max number of converters is limited, thus what you can actually use is defined by this constraint. Due to this, we'll likely manage MST for the legacy HDA by assigning MST devs dynamically to pins in a certain procedure to make things compatible.
but how many MST devs are you going to create?
This is exactly the point: for the legacy HDA, instead of creating the entry for each MST devices, they are assigned dynamically to PCM at activation. So the number of devices exposed to user-space is limited -- or better to say, user-space won't notice the difference.
And how many PCMs are you proposing for MST?
5 for Intel, i.e. Nconv * 2 - 1. This could be even Nconv, but we provide the reserved slots just for the compatible behavior that assumes the static pin/slot assignment.
How is Nconv * 2 - 1 PCMs are derived? Lets assume, there are 3 cvts and 4pins, I think it will not work.
We're talking about Intel case, right? Then both numbers are same.
Takashi