Re: [PATCH 01/19] ASoC: amd: ps: create platform devices based on acp config

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

>>>>>> we should create two separate ACPI companion devices for separate
>>>>>> manager instance.  Currently we have limitations with BIOS.
>>>>>> we are going with single ACPI companion device.
>>>>>> We will update the changes later.
>>>>> Humm, this is tricky. The BIOS interface isn't something that can be
>>>>> changed at will on the kernel side, you'd have to maintain two solutions
>>>>> with a means to detect which one to use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or is this is a temporary issue on development devices, then that part
>>>>> should probably not be upstreamed.
>>>> It's a temporary issue on development devices.
>>>> We had discussion with Windows dev team and BIOS team.
>>>> They have agreed to modify ACPI companion device logic.
>>>> We will update the two companion devices logic for two manager
>>>> instances in V2 version.
>>> After experimenting, two ACPI companion devices approach,
>>> we got an update from Windows team, there is a limitation
>>> on windows stack. For current platform, we can't proceed
>>> with two ACPI companion devices.
>>
>> so how would the two controllers be declared then in the DSDT used by
>> Windows? There's a contradiction between having a single companion
>> device and the ability to set the 'manager-number' to one.
>>
>> You probably want to give an example of what you have, otherwise we
>> probably will talk past each other.
>>>
>>> Even on Linux side, if we create two ACPI companion devices
>>> followed by creating a single soundwire manager instance per
>>> Soundwire controller, we have observed an issue in a scenario,
>>> where similar codec parts(UID are also same) are connected on
>>> both soundwire manager instances.
>>
>> We've been handling this case of two identical amplifiers on two
>> different links for the last 3 years. I don't see how this could be a
>> problem, the codecs are declared in the scope of the companion device
>> and the _ADR defines in bits [51..48] which link the codec is connected to.
>>
> 
> The problem is that there are two managers in the specified AMD design, and
> the codecs are both on "Link 0" for each manager.

You're confusing Controller and Manager.

A Manager is the same as a 'Link', the two terms are interchangeable. It
makes no sense to refer to a link number for a manager because there is
no such concept.

Only a Controller can have multiple links or managers. And each
Controller needs to be declared as an ACPI device if you want to use the
DisCo properties.

The Managers/Links are not described as ACPI devices, that's a
regrettable design decision made in MIPI circles many moons ago, that's
why in the Intel code we have to manually create auxiliary devices based
on the 'mipi-sdw-master-count' property.

> So the _ADR really is identical for both.

That cannot possible work, even for Windows. You need to have a
controller scope, and the _ADR can then be identical for different
peripherals as long as this ADR is local to a controller scope.