On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:26:22 +0000 Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org wrote:
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:38:03AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
If voice port on twl4030 is not connected to a McBSP (or similar) then we cannot configure the format the way we normally do for a DAI.
Yes we can, you need to represent the DAI link to whatever else the device is connected to in the driver like we do anything else - and in any case this isn't a device specific issue so we shouldn't be doing something driver specific to solve it. Look at something like speyside.
Hi Mark, thanks for the reply ... I might need a little bit more help though.
I had a look at sound/soc/samsung/speyside.c, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for. Presumably this is an audio processor not unlike the audio module in the twl4030.
I see that there are 3 dai-links: CPU-DSP DSP-CODEC Baseband
Presumably "Baseband" is similar, in purpose at least, to the "voice" interface on the twl4030.
Each dai-link has a "cpu_dai_name" and a "codec_dai_name", even though it appears that only "CPU-DSP" is connected to the CPU. Maybe that naming is the source of some of my confusion.
"Baseband" declares .cpu_dai_name = "wm8996-aif2", so wm8996 is something with 2 audio interfaces, (aif), and this is the second one? Maybe the wm8996 is the audio module, so what is the "speyside"?
http://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/content/speyside-audio
says it is a "reference platform". Does that mean it is a board with a bunch of chips soldered onto it? If it were a board it should be described by a dts file, not by a pile of C code (I thought), so I must be wrong about that.
In my case, I have a board with a GSM module and the twl4030 module. Each has an audio interface and these are connected. I assume that I need to express this connection in the dts file. The GSM module doesn't currently appear in the dts file as it is usb-attached. However I've been thinking that we will need to add it so we can express power-on controls (twiddling some GPIOs). So let's suppose we have the GSM module in the dts file (child of a USB interface) and the twl4030 as well (beneath an i2c interface).
The twl4030 needs to know the master/polarity of the clk/frm lines. The GSM module declares that these are. So presumably we need some sort of linkage. Ahhhh... I found Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/simple-card.txt
So I need to make the "voice" port on the twl4030 look like a "cpu" end of a dai-link, and create a "codec" end in the GSM module, and use "sound-dai" to point from the twl4030 to the GSM module. Then I use frame-master, bitclock-master, bitclock-inversion, frame-inversion for the settings I need.
I suspect I can make that work.
Am I on the right track?
Thanks, NeilBrown