[alsa-devel] [ANNOUNCE] 2019 Linux Audio miniconference

[Daniel Baluta]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:21 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> On 10/10/19 10:57 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:48:14PM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:15 PM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> >> My topics:
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> > I'll add these to the agenda.
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> >> - SOF driver: ACPI / DT unification
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> > Are there concrete plans to discuss here or is this more of a
> > "what are we doing" kind of thing?  ACPI standardization has been
> > an issue :/
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> I took this agenda item as "how machine drivers are handled in SOF".
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> Currently the core creates a platform device which will result in a
> machine driver being probe and the card created. This is mainly due to
> the lack of 'machine device' in existing DSDT tables. DT has explicit
> support for machine drivers, so we need to have a solution that caters
> to both.
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> >> - SOF driver: Handling built-in driver use case
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> > What's the issue here?
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> The SOF driver (or any existing driver with closed-source firmware) will
> not work when compiled as built-in due to the request_firmware()
> dependency. This wasn't too much of an issue for Intel so far, but for
> i.MX platforms it's quite common to have no modules.
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> Daniel, did I get things right?

Yes, thanks for jumping in! This is exactly what I was thinking of.

Daniel.