SOF exposes regular ALSA Kcontrols that are defined by topology. This
patch converts the Kcontrol IO to DSP IPC.
The current implementation is aligned with previous Intel solutions,
but is not optimal and can be improved:
a) for every get/put the host wakes up the DSP and generates an
IPC. The kernel should cache the values and generate an IPC only when
strictly necessary.
b) the firmware can be implemented to only instantiate the pipelines
and related control-related parts that are needed at a given time, and
power-gate the relevant SRAM blocks.
The development tasks for these two improvements has started, once
validated they will be provided in an update.
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
The Sound Open Firmware driver core is a generic architecture
independent layer that allows SOF to be used on many different
architectures and platforms. It abstracts DSP operations and IO
methods so that the target DSP can be an internal memory mapped or
external SPI or I2C based device. This abstraction also allows SOF to
be run on many different VMs on the same physical HW.
SOF also requires some data in ASoC PCM runtime data for looking up
SOF data during ASoC PCM operations.
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
