ASoC topology loading vs card bind

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

Thanks Pierre for inputs,

On 18/03/2021 12:40, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
>> Am trying to load FE dais from topology file along with the graph 
>> definition.
>>
>> Ex:
>> Lets say we have a dai link in soundcard which has cpus->dai_name 
>> pointing to an FE dai ("MultiMedia1") available in topology file.
> 
> Why would you want to do this? You are hard-coding an FE dailink in the 
> machine driver, when it can be described in the topology.

TBH, there is no reason to do that, I was just trying out ASoC topology 
on QCom platforms :-)

I will give that a go, hopefully that should help!


> 
> Look at the SOF machine drivers, they have ZERO FEs hard-coded, 
> precisely because we want the topology to define FEs.

Do you have an example topology for this that I can take as reference?

thanks,
srini

> 
> And for legacy machine drivers, we also skip all FE dailinks and only 
> use the ones from the topology.