[PATCH v4 11/17] ASoC: Intel: avs: Firmware resources management utilities

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 3/11/22 09:46, Cezary Rojewski wrote:
> On 2022-03-09 11:36 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>>>   /*
>>>    * struct avs_dev - Intel HD-Audio driver data
>>>    *
>>>    * @dev: PCI device
>>>    * @dsp_ba: DSP bar address
>>>    * @spec: platform-specific descriptor
>>> + * @fw_cfg: Firmware configuration, obtained through FW_CONFIG message
>>> + * @hw_cfg: Hardware configuration, obtained through HW_CONFIG message
>>> + * @mods_info: Available module-types, obtained through MODULES_INFO 
>>> message
>>
>> is this just for the base firmware? If this includes the extensions, 
>> how are the module types defined?
> 
> 
> Only base firmware is able to process MODULE_INFO getter. So, every time 
> driver loads a library, this info gets updated internally on the 
> firmware side. We make use of said getter to retrieve up-to-date 
> information and cache in ->mods_info for later use. ->mods_info is a 
> member of type struct avs_mods_info with each enter represented by 
> struct avs_module_info. These are introduced with all the basefw runtime 
> parameters.

you clarified the mechanism but not the definition of 'module-type'?

the definition doesn't really help.

struct avs_module_type {
	u32 load_type:4;
	u32 auto_start:1;
	u32 domain_ll:1;
	u32 domain_dp:1;
	u32 lib_code:1;
	u32 rsvd:24;
} __packed;

I see nothing that would e.g. identify a mixer from a gain. The 
definition of 'type' seems to refer to low-level properties, not what 
the module actually does?