[Sound-open-firmware] Dynamic module loading

[Wang, Rander]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 9:29 PM
> To: Wang, Rander <rander.wang at intel.com>; Liviu <budliviu at gmail.com>
> Cc: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>; Girdwood, Liam
> R <liam.r.girdwood at intel.com>; sound-open-firmware at alsa-project.org
> Subject: Re: Dynamic module loading
> 
> +Rander correct email address
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 4:28 PM Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rander,
> >
> > Regarding your patch:
> >
> > https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/pull/4536/commits/12ca2c956e5be49
> > 49e61186def582def7f188528
> >
> > We've seen this new IPC:
> >
> >     case SOF_IPC4_GLB_LOAD_MULTIPLE_MODULES:
> >     case SOF_IPC4_GLB_UNLOAD_MULTIPLE_MODULES:
> >           tr_err(&ipc_tr, "not implemented ipc message type %d", type);
> >            ret = IPC4_UNAVAILABLE;
> >
> > Is this loading a new binary module for SOF to later use? Is there any
> > documentation about this?
> > Or a pointer in the converged-modules repo?
[Rander] yes, it is for future IPC4. Document is not ready. I will notify you if it is ready. Liam has a schedule for this task.

> > We are working on implementing a similar feature and we could use and
> > work previously done.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Daniel.