From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (alsa0.perex.cz [77.48.224.243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 857E0C433EF for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (alsa1.perex.cz [207.180.221.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF0A41AF5; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:41:18 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa0.perex.cz BF0A41AF5 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=alsa-project.org; s=default; t=1645756928; bh=1T8qQIgXjOHky5IINNc+a264inzVIf/i/kkX8NCkHGo=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To:Cc:List-Id: List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe: From; b=G0g1Y9tlSXeKriwdsML94FT+IbRELgq41A2Vn1fOMD/K2MkMEEl+gaggTUFY7pA+4 BZbRWh3ONimqvxQzPHnbgZEvfzn3Qh5u8KqJeV2DNgHYG76gxsxqmUGEyU5RQRwjJC 2Kuh4Iu9Z0b53/hkBYiRMH/3UpUqoBfmN4nzZUhw= Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B22BF80525; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:39:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 50401) id 5B95CF80310; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:39:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B406F80169 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:39:25 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa1.perex.cz 8B406F80169 Authentication-Results: alsa1.perex.cz; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="m4DT+LkZ" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1645756766; x=1677292766; h=message-id:date:mime-version:subject:to:cc:references: from:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1T8qQIgXjOHky5IINNc+a264inzVIf/i/kkX8NCkHGo=; b=m4DT+LkZjFTpfOXUxA7CMPOh52YOrtDa6hvfdgt+YXKbUBfyS2bMg3tn c473/CX8RA5xef9LBTL9U+V8j1p/ASEMpDEY9TdNthQRiVH9jNhYOP2uX 5rynZqYOEKjj5TQvlzzZvZaMzprKyklCKCH0CjZZBWAzE6wZR0BW/Ammh VI9Fg5ao+gUHE01rvmvkkcWRFI3lc6r0fihJvMotqEIYmOJbdJApYJkms RDlIyb+BzAplQafNuMQ4n/7r5jYczuP6XuVfEyV7rCxspb5zwhOD4bd8E L/6el7eObqcr8yYVZ9Om1OogvsIAhT1ldxQGHMl9NabuWAkDbZGN/2KLD w==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10268"; a="277036165" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,134,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="277036165" Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Feb 2022 18:39:24 -0800 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,134,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="491832672" Received: from jsegev-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.212.99.193]) ([10.212.99.193]) by orsmga003-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Feb 2022 18:39:23 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:53:38 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] ASoC: Intel: avs: Firmware resources management utilities Content-Language: en-US To: Cezary Rojewski , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org References: <20220207122108.3780926-1-cezary.rojewski@intel.com> <20220207122108.3780926-12-cezary.rojewski@intel.com> From: Pierre-Louis Bossart In-Reply-To: <20220207122108.3780926-12-cezary.rojewski@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: upstream@semihalf.com, harshapriya.n@intel.com, rad@semihalf.com, tiwai@suse.com, hdegoede@redhat.com, broonie@kernel.org, amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com, cujomalainey@chromium.org, lma@semihalf.com X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" On 2/7/22 06:21, Cezary Rojewski wrote: > With basefw runtime parameter handlers added, implement utility > functions to ease pipeline and module allocation. IDA is enlisted to > help with that. Also, as firmware is modular and multiple binaries can > be loaded throughout the lifetime of a driver, custom firmware caching > mechanism is added. It's not clear what the 'lifetime' refers to. Did you mean that the binaries can be loaded/unloaded on-demand depending on use cases without having to reboot the DSP, or that at each reboot a different set of binaries can be used.