[alsa-devel] [REANNOUNCE] Audio Mini Summit 2015, 8th October, Dublin

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Aug 5 11:39:05 CEST 2015


On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:26:03AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That'd require us to move all the DAPM information for drivers out of
> > the kernel and into userspace which seems a bit worrying - it's going to
> > be harder for things that need events and I worry about the effect on
> > quality of implementation if people stop sending things to get reviewed.

> Not for this option, for example in SKL.

> kernel doesnt have toplogy information coded in, it is parsed and build from
> topology binary which is built by alsa-lib. So if we add more alsa-lib APIs
> to parse the installed binary we have good view of system without going to
> kernel, we know complete graph and controls...

That's a specific case where the topology definition is coming in with
the actual implementation.  For CODECs where things are in silicon
things are a bit different.
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