From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Subject: Re: Abouut adv7511 driver Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 12:44:06 +0300 Message-ID: <2068811.mrRDGz9M57@avalon> References: <87zj2cvqi7.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> <55BB2704.4070509@metafoo.de> <87y4hwviyu.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87y4hwviyu.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: Mark Brown , Lars-Peter Clausen , Magnus , alsa-devel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hello, On Friday 31 July 2015 08:21:16 Kuninori Morimoto wrote: > Hi Lars > Cc Magnus, Laurent > > > > I noticed Analog Devices has adv7511 support on > > > http://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-drivers/drm/adv751 > > > 1 > > > > > > And I tried this driver on my board, and it works. > > > > > > if my understanding was correct, latest linux kernel doesn't have > > > adv7511 "sound" support yet. > > > Thus, I would like to have it on linux kernel. > > > According to this driver/file, it is under GPL-2, so it is no problem > > > from license point of view. > > > > > > According to git log Signd-off-by, Lars/Mark are listed on this adv7511 > > > sound driver. but I wonder why it is not on upstream ? Are there some > > > reason ?? > > > If you don't mind, I would like to send it to ML. > > > This is OK ? > > > > The reason why the driver is not upstream at the moment is that the way it > > implements things is definitely not the right way. But there is still a > > lot of discussion on what actually is the right way to implement audio > > support for HDMI devices. Once that has been sorted out the driver will > > hopefully go upstream. Beside the in-kernel API, have you given a thought to DT bindings for HDMI encoders ? Some platforms use DT bindings based on OF graph for the video path, would it make sense to model the audio path similarly ? The implementation could become a bit of a challenge though. > Thank you for explaining this background. > I understand. feel free to contact me if you want me test. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe alsa-devel" in