Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Apple Macs machine-level ASoC driver

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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Martin Povišer wrote:

> I looked in the TAS2770 and TAS2764 drivers/datasheets, and to answer
> the questions we had:

>  * VSENSE/ISENSE output slots are configured independently of audio samples
>    routing. Kernel drivers configure the slots based on the 'ti,imon-slot-no'
>    and 'ti,vmon-slot-no' properties of devicetree.

>  * By default codecs transmit Hi-Z for duration of unused slots.

> So once we supply the devicetree props it should be electrically sound
> under any configuration of userspace knobs.

Great, that's a relief.

> One final thought on the playback routing controls: On systems with >2
> speakers, the codecs need to be assigned slots through set_tdm_slot.
> The macaudio driver RFCed here assigns a single slot to each speaker,
> making the effect of each speaker's routing control this:

>   'I2C offset' -- uses a random slot

>   'Left' 'Right' 'LeftRight' -- uses the single slot we configured

> I suppose I better assign two slots to speakers in each left-right pair
> of the same kind (e.g. woofer 1, woofer 2, tweeter). This way the
> routing control will mimic its behavior from simple stereo systems but
> replicated within each left-right pair.  (I would prefer to hide the
> controls altogether, but as I learned that hiding things unless proven
> dangerous is an ASoC non-goal, this way I can make the controls do
> something interesting.)

I don't quite grasp the difference between the arrangement you're
proposing and assigning a single slot to each speaker?  Possibly it's
just a reordering of the slots?

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