Re: [PATCH 0/3] ASoC: codecs: add the Qualcomm WCD9378 audio codec

["Luca Weiss" <luca.weiss@fairphone.com>]

Hi Jorijn,

On Mon Jul 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM CEST, Jorijn van der Graaf wrote:
> This series adds bindings and a codec driver for the Qualcomm WCD9378,
> found on SM7635 boards such as the Fairphone 6. The chip pairs a
> WCD937x-compatible analog core with SDCA-style function blocks whose
> built-in sequencers handle the analog power-up/down; all control
> registers, analog core included, sit in a 32-bit paged SDCA control
> address space behind the TX SoundWire slave.
>
> The driver implements the TX/capture paths (three ADCs fed from four
> analog microphone inputs, three mic bias supplies) and is modeled on
> wcd937x, reusing the wcd-common helpers. RX/playback, MBHC and the
> SmartAMP function are follow-up work. Register sequences come from the
> GPL downstream wcd9378 driver in Qualcomm's audio-kernel-ar tree; the
> chip has no public datasheet.
>
> One dependency outside this series: the paged register map needs the
> Qualcomm SoundWire controller to implement SCP address paging, posted
> separately to the soundwire tree as
> "soundwire: qcom: add SCP address paging support". Without it the
> codec enumerates but every paged register access silently reads zero.
> There is no compile-time dependency, so the two can go through their
> respective trees in any order; capture just needs both to land.
>
> Patch 1 moves the qcom,micbias4-microvolt requirement out of
> qcom,wcd93xx-common.yaml into the codecs that have four mic bias
> supplies, so the three-bias WCD9378 binding in patch 2 can reference
> the common schema. Patch 3 is the driver itself.
>
> Tested on the Fairphone 6 (SM7635): handset mic capture through the
> LPASS TX macro at 48 kHz across reboots, including UCM-driven use by
> PipeWire in a Plasma Mobile session. The board DTS follows once these
> bindings are accepted.

Many thanks for all your work on the Fairphone (Gen. 6)!

If possible, can you share also dts patches with me, so I can try out
your patches, and provide at least Tested-by?

Also for audio, UCM and AudioReach topology if it differs from
https://github.com/z3ntu/audioreach-topology/commits/fp6/ or what you've
used to test the changes.

So for NFC, speaker, microphone and magnetometer would be great.

A git branch with your changes also works of course if you have that
pushed somewhere.

Regards
Luca

>
> Jorijn van der Graaf (3):
>   ASoC: dt-bindings: qcom,wcd93xx-common: don't require micbias4
>   ASoC: dt-bindings: add the Qualcomm WCD9378 audio codec
>   ASoC: codecs: wcd9378: add TX/capture codec driver
>
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd9378-codec.yaml    |   76 +
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd9378-sdw.yaml      |  122 ++
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd937x.yaml          |    1 +
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd938x.yaml          |    1 +
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd939x.yaml          |    1 +
>  .../bindings/sound/qcom,wcd93xx-common.yaml   |    1 -
>  sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig                      |   19 +
>  sound/soc/codecs/Makefile                     |    7 +
>  sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378-sdw.c                |  495 ++++++
>  sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378.c                    | 1382 +++++++++++++++++
>  sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378.h                    |  246 +++
>  11 files changed, 2350 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,wcd9378-codec.yaml
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,wcd9378-sdw.yaml
>  create mode 100644 sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378-sdw.c
>  create mode 100644 sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378.c
>  create mode 100644 sound/soc/codecs/wcd9378.h