[RFC PATCH 0/5] Apple Macs machine-level ASoC driver

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 01:28:20PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:
> > On 22. 4. 2022, at 13:19, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:

> >> One final thought on the playback routing controls: On systems with >2
> >> speakers, the codecs need to be assigned slots through set_tdm_slot.
> >> The macaudio driver RFCed here assigns a single slot to each speaker,
> >> making the effect of each speaker's routing control this:

...

> > I don't quite grasp the difference between the arrangement you're
> > proposing and assigning a single slot to each speaker?  Possibly it's
> > just a reordering of the slots?

> Ah, maybe what’s missing is the fact that the way the speaker amp drivers
> are written, if they are assigned two slots with a call to set_tdm_slot,
> the first slot is considered 'left' and the second is 'right'.

> So in the arrangement I am proposing the 'Left', 'Right' and 'LeftRight'
> values of the routing control have the nominal effect (within the left-right
> speaker pair), while in the other arrangement it is as I described above.

So previously each speaker would get two slots but now it just gets one?
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