On 4/16/21 1:55 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:47:01AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
On 4/16/21 11:31 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
Not really written down that I can think of. I think the next steps
that I can think of right now are unfortunately bigger and harder ones,
mainly working out a way to represent digital configuration as a graph
that can be attached to/run in parallel with DAPM other people might
have some better ideas though. Sorry, I appreciate that this isn't
super helpful :/
I see a need for this in our future SoundWire/SDCA work. So far I was
planning to model the entities as 'widgets' and lets DAPM propagate
activation information for power management, however there are also bits of
information in 'Clusters' (number of channels and spatial relationships)
that could change dynamically and would be interesting to propagate across
entities, so that when we get a stream of data on the bus we know what it
is.
Yes, I was thinking along similar lines last time I looked at it - I was
using the term digital domains. You'd need some impedence matching
objects for things like SRCs, and the ability to flag which
configuration matters within a domain (eg, a lot of things will covert
to the maximum supported bit width for internal operation so bit width
only matters on external interfaces) but I think for a first pass we can
get away with forcing everything other than what DPCM has as front ends
into static configurations.
You lost me on the last sentence. did you mean "forcing everything into
static configurations except for what DPCM has as front-ends"?
It may already be too late for static configurations, Intel, NXP and
others have started to enable cases where the dailink configuration varies.
FWIW both the USB and SDCA class document are very careful with the
notion of constraints and whether an entity is implemented in the analog
or digital domains. There are 'clock sources' that may be used in
specific terminals but no notion of explicit SRC in the graph to leave
implementers a lot of freedom. There is a notion of 'Usage' that
describes e.g. FullBand or WideBand without defining what the
representation is. The bit width is also not described except where
necessary (history buffers and external bus-facing interfaces). Like you
said it's mostly the boundaries of the domains that matter.
