Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC drivers for the Freescale MPC8610 SoC

Mark Brown wrote:

The machine support code (fabric driver in PowerPC terms, I think?) tells the core how everything is connected together by registering devices representing the links (eg, I2S) between the codecs, CPU and other devices. The ASoC core is then responsible for ensuring that all the required components are present before it registers with the ALSA core.

I'm no expert on this, but I think from the PowerPC point-of-view, the *ideal* situation would be if the ASoC fabric driver were generic, maybe even part of ASoC itself, and everything it needed could be obtained from the device tree.