[alsa-devel] [RFC 00/10] Enable HDA Codec support on Intel Platforms (Series2)

[Vinod Koul]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:52:06AM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 12/3/17 10:21 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 09:44:56PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> >>That gets complicated. you'd have
> >>1. DSP-based ASoC driver for SKL+ w/ DSP
> >>2. coupled-mode ASoC driver for SKL+ w/o DSP
> >>3. legacy for pre-SKL platforms.
> >>
> >>I don't see what simplification this brings, it's complicated enough with 1.
> >>and 3, and legacy is not going away.
> >
> >in long term we _need_ to converge. 1 and 2 should be same driver detecting
> >presence of DSP dynamically and doing DSP based or coupled mode.
> 
> Did we ever enable the coupled mode? if not then it's an hypothetical
> direction...

and prerequisite for that is HDA, so it can be done once this support is
merged!

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~Vinod