On 17/05/2023 14:24, Ding, Shenghao wrote: > > > On 11/05/2023 15:19, Ding, Shenghao wrote: >> >> On 11/05/2023 07:49, Mark Brown wrote: >>>> Missing minItems, but... >>> >>>>> + items: >>>>> + minimum: 0x38 >>>>> + maximum: 0x3f >>> >>>> ... So these are fixed? No need to encode them in such case... >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand your concern here, there's up to 4 possible >>> values from 0x38-0x3f which has more than 4 possible values. >> >> Aren't the addresses going to be incremented by one (up to 8 of devices in total)? > > With your style of replies, it looks like you wrote it... > > All the addresses of tas2781 are in range from 0x38 to 0x 3f, the order of them in the audio-slots item are up to the hardware connections. > I have studied the reg item to save multiple i2c addresses for multiple pieces of tas2781 and found that "'#address-cells': maximum: 3" > that means "reg" store not more than three addresses, this can't support the more than 3 pieces of tas2781, No entirely. This determines the size of each address, not the number of addresses. > such as 4-slot TDM case or multiple dual-membrane speakers case, in such a case, one speaker will use > two pieces of tas2781 to boost, usually at least 6 pieces of tas2781 will be used in a laptop or other device. > >> >> No, the i2c address order is not always monotonic increase or decrease, sometime it would be disorder, according to the application. >> Each device would have eight possible i2c address, the final address depends on the hardware connections. > > OK, the question about the broadcast is still there - cannot it be deduced? > > The reason to define this item and add it in dts is that tell tas2781 driver code to enable broadcast and its address. > Removing this item means disabling broadcast. Do you want to hardcode the global address in the code? > And this item only used as a flag to enable or disable? > > Best regards, > Krzysztof > Hi Krzysztof, nice to talk with you! I really do not know what is here mine what's yours. I could guess, but we are all a bit busy, so I would appreciate if reading your email was easier for me. Best regards, Krzysztof