[PATCH v3 11/17] ASoC: Intel: avs: Firmware resources management utilities

[Cezary Rojewski]

On 2022-03-08 7:26 PM, Ranjani Sridharan wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 19:07 +0100, Cezary Rojewski wrote:
>>> Keeping in mind that this driver is meant for older platforms, how
>>> likely are you to support multiple sound cards with those
>>> topologies?
>>
>>
>> Not sure what's the question here. Age of the platform has nothing to
>> do
>>
>> with the subject. There is not a single DSP-capable platform that
>> Intel
>>
>> has shipped that would not contain more one audio device onboard. At
>>
>> least I'm not aware of any.
> 
> My question was related to your comment about multiple sound cards.
> What I asked was do you plan to support multiple topologies with
> modules spread across then with multiple sound component drivers with
> the AVS driver and firmware? Does this mean you will need multiple
> topology files and machine driver? And what is the rationale for this?
> 
> If not, there's no need for the mutex.

Yes, avs-driver embraces granular sound card approach as opposed to 
super card approach. There is one topology file per sound card.

That subject is not part of this patchset though.


Regards,
Czarek