[PATCH 0/4] ASoC: fsl_asrc: allow selecting arbitrary clocks

[Arnaud Ferraris]

Hi Nic,

Le 03/07/2020 à 11:38, Arnaud Ferraris a écrit :
> Hi Nic,
> 
> Le 02/07/2020 à 20:42, Nicolin Chen a écrit :
>> Hi Arnaud,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 04:22:31PM +0200, Arnaud Ferraris wrote:
>>> The current ASRC driver hardcodes the input and output clocks used for
>>> sample rate conversions. In order to allow greater flexibility and to
>>> cover more use cases, it would be preferable to select the clocks using
>>> device-tree properties.
>>
>> We recent just merged a new change that auto-selecting internal
>> clocks based on sample rates as the first option -- ideal ratio
>> mode is the fallback mode now. Please refer to:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=next-20200702&id=d0250cf4f2abfbea64ed247230f08f5ae23979f0
> 
> That looks interesting, thanks for pointing this out!
> I'll rebase and see how it works for my use-case, will keep you informed.
> 
> Regards,
> Arnaud
> 

I finally got some time to test and debug clock auto-selection on my
system, and unfortunately couldn't get it to work.

Here's some background about my use case: the i.MX6 board acts as a
Bluetooth proxy between a phone and a headset. It has 2 Bluetooth
modules (one for each connected device), with audio connected to SSI1 &
SSI2. Audio sample rate can be either 8 or 16kHz, and bclk can be either
512 or 1024kHz, all depending of the capabilities of the headset and phone.
In our case we want SSI2 to be the input clock to the ASRC and SSI1 the
output clock, but there is no way to force that with auto-selection:
both clocks are multiples of both 8k and 16k, so the algorithm will
always select the SSI1 clock.

I don't think auto-selection can be made smart enough to cover this
case, which is why I believe we still need a way to manually setup the
input and output clocks to be used by ASRC, falling back to
auto-selecting the clocks if not setup manually.
If not using DT bindings, what do you think would be the best way to
implement that?

Regards,
Arnaud