Re: Qeury regarding EAC driver for omap 24xx

["Pharaoh ." <pharaoh137@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jarkko.

On 6/6/07, Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:32:24 +0530
> "ext Pharaoh ." <pharaoh137@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am referring the EAC driver for omap 24xx which is used by n800
> > board. The EAC 24xx driver
> > doesn't look complete since it has only hardware init sequences and
> > very basic ALSA related
> > functionalities i.e. register the sound card etc. Is omap 24xx eac
> > driver still in intermediate stage?Or
> > it is complete but not yet integrated in to omap git tree? In later
> > case, where can I find the complete
> > eac driver?
> >
> That's correct, it is mainly targeted for N800 where audio is coming
> from DSP side and driver is only charge of configuring digital audio
> interface and doing runtime clock and codec power management.
>
> I agree that native EAC ALSA PCM support would be nice but unfortunately
> we don't have any progress on that developing it.
>
> > Also, omap 24xx driver doesn't seem to follow the framework/structure
> > of other omap alsa
> > drivers in sound/arm/omap/ , any particular reason?  Please enlighten.
> >
> I think drivers in sound/arm/omap are somewhat "adrift". Codec drivers
> are tightly coupled into OMAP, they implement same global functions so
> that you cannot link them together, no clear separation between audio
> controller and codec, etc.
>
> Hopefully we see gradually those drivers ported into ASoC platform and
> codec drivers in order to get some change to get them into mainline.
>
>
> 	Jarkko
>