From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Pharaoh ." Subject: Re: Qeury regarding EAC driver for omap 24xx Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:03:49 +0530 Message-ID: <61445c750706060533o7453c2acl56f820688770acf3@mail.gmail.com> References: <61445c750706060402q34388d3fm7bf2c097b34f6346@mail.gmail.com> <20070606150430.e4d55f5c.jarkko.nikula@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070606150430.e4d55f5c.jarkko.nikula@nokia.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com Errors-To: linux-omap-open-source-bounces@linux.omap.com To: Jarkko Nikula Cc: linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Thanks Jarkko. On 6/6/07, Jarkko Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:32:24 +0530 > "ext Pharaoh ." 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 >