[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Add support for multi register mux

[Stephen Warren]

On 03/20/2014 05:48 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:44:00PM -0700, Arun Shamanna Lakshmi wrote:
> 
> Don't top post and fix your mailer to word wrap within paragraphs, your
> mail is very hard to read.
> 
>> If each bit of a 32 bit register maps to an input of a mux, then with
>> the current 'soc_enum' structure we cannot have more than 64 inputs
>> for the mux (because of reg and reg2 only).
> 
> What makes you say that?  We currently have devices in mainline which
> have well over 32 inputs to muxes.

I think their register layout is different.

I found a number of large muxes where the register stores a 'integer'
indicating which mux input to select, e.g. Arizona, WM2200, etc. In this
case, an N-bit register could support up to 2^N inputs.

However, the registers in the Tegra AHUB use 1 bit position per input,
and require you to set one single bit at a time. Hence, an N bit
register (or string of registers) can support up to N inputs. In more
recent Tegra chips, we have at least >32 inputs and I think Arun was
saying even >64 inputs. That requires 2 or 3 or more .reg fields in
struct soc_enum.