[alsa-devel] Emulated IEC958 Card

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:20:16PM +0900, Jassi Brar wrote:

> I would really appreciate your take on the idea if you could spare a
> few moments please.
> Actually I just might get our AP design folks to implement such a
> dedicated shifter IP in later SoC.
> Also, I don't wanna direct the bloke(Angat) in a direction that is
> outright unacceptable
> to maintainers -- if it is so.

The idea of having a full IEC958 emulation layer that just needs a
generic serial port or shifter accessed through some standard interface
seems entirely sensible.  This isn't so different to what things like
the McBSP, PXA SSP or FSL SSI ports do.