[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v10 00/15] Add Allwinner H3/H5/H6/A64 HDMI audio

Jernej Škrabec jernej.skrabec at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 21:59:43 CET 2020


Dne petek, 30. oktober 2020 ob 21:50:43 CET je Stefan Monnier napisal(a):
> >> This series add H6 I2S support and the I2S node missing to support
> >> HDMI audio in different Allwinner SoC.
> > 
> > Applied to
> > 
> >    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git
> >    for-next
> 
> Yay!

Note that this doesn't bring HDMI audio card just yet. Another driver will be 
needed for that.

> 
> Now, I wonder: will that make it easier to add support for HDMI-Audio for
> the A10/A20?

No, A10/A20 HDMI audio uses completely different interface.

> 
> (there was a patch for that submitted earlier this year by Stefan
> Mavrodiev <stefan at olimex.com>, but it seems there hasn't been any
> progress on it since then (I think the last message on it concluded that
> it should be rewritten to use ALSA instead of ASoC)).

IIUC original author left Olimex, so work stalled.

Best regards,
Jernej

> 
> [ To clarify, don't know what's the difference between ALSA and ASoC;
>   I'm only interested here as an owner of an A20 box on which I'd
>   love to be able to use the HDMI-Audio.  ]
> 
> 
> -- Stefan






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