[alsa-devel] Need general idea how to architect driver for multi-codec board

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:31:15AM -0700, Caleb Crome wrote:

> 1)  Simply instantiate multiple TLV320IAC33 codec drivers, as the AIC33
> driver is already written.

Yes.

>     This seems like it won't work because I'd end up with multiple
> user-space 'cards', yet I want the card to appear as a single 16-channel
> sound card.  Also, when you start one PCM interface for one codec, they

No, you shouldn't.  You'll end up with a single card.

> would all start automatically, which I imagine the linux system wouldn't
> get.  Also, the PCM interface needs to be configured differently for each
> codec (the TDM offset must be 0, 16, 32, 48, etc. bits).

The TDM stuff should be configured with the existing TDM API (you may
need to implement this in the CODEC driver).