Re: AT32 ASoC Driver Patches on alsa-devel

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

Geoffrey Wossum <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For anyone that's interested, there's patches to add ALSA System-on-Chip sound 
> platform drivers for the AVR32 being discussed on the alsa-devel mailing list 
> right now.

Hmm. For something that depends on a metric shitload of middle layers,
it is surprisingly large...

I have to admit I don't understand the current sound situation at all.
With this driver, we now have:
  * An OSS driver for the AP7000 Audio Bitstream DAC
  * A "regular" ALSA driver for the AC97C (not based on ASoC)
  * Two different "generic" AC97 layers: one in sound/pci/ac97 and one
    in sound/soc/ac97 (the AC97C driver uses the former)
  * An i2s driver for the AT73C213 chip using the SSC controller and SPI
  * Another SSC driver based on the ASoC layer
  * Some sort of "AT32 PCM" layer which apparently can only be used
    with the SSC controller
  * The above two being essentially identical to similar drivers for
    AT91

Can someone please help me out here? In particular, what is ASoC and
why should I want to use it?

Haavard
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