Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] ASoC: dt-bindings: imx-rpmsg: Add binding doc for rpmsg machine driver

[Shengjiu Wang]

Hi

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:05 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:23 AM Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:18 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 06:23:55PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
> > > > Imx-rpmsg is a new added machine driver for supporting audio on Cortex-M
> > > > core. The Cortex-M core will control the audio interface, DMA and audio
> > > > codec, setup the pipeline, the audio driver on Cortex-A core side is just
> > > > to communitcate with M core, it is a virtual sound card and don't touch
> > > > the hardware.
> > >
> > > I don't understand why there are 2 nodes for this other than you happen
> > > to want to split this into 2 Linux drivers. It's 1 h/w thing.
> >
> > This one is for the sound card machine driver.  Another one is
> > for the sound card cpu dai driver. so there are 2 nodes.
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> You are explaining this to me in terms of drivers. Explain it in terms
> of h/w blocks.
>

Yes, there is only 1 h/w block, which is (MU) message unit

As the sound card needs a cpu dai node and sound card node,
so from the driver's perspective, I use two nodes.

Seems It is hard to only use one node for my case.
or do you have any suggestions?

Best regards
Wang shengjiu