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| author | Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com> | 2014-01-07 17:51:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> | 2014-01-07 17:56:32 +0000 |
| commit | d9e9ff5a8ed3752b659c996eb8a7c7eb4ec9a080 (patch) | |
| tree | 72594765619c4a820c99f4f02fdcb83439f9f994 /Documentation/sound | |
| parent | 6ce4eac1f600b34f2f7f58f9cd8f0503d79e42ae (diff) | |
ASoC: docs: Update the Overview document
Update the ASoC overview to bring it up to date with the current code base
and include multi-component.
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sound')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt index 138ac88c146..ff88f52eec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/overview.txt @@ -49,18 +49,23 @@ features :- * Machine specific controls: Allow machines to add controls to the sound card (e.g. volume control for speaker amplifier). -To achieve all this, ASoC basically splits an embedded audio system into 3 -components :- +To achieve all this, ASoC basically splits an embedded audio system into +multiple re-usable component drivers :- - * Codec driver: The codec driver is platform independent and contains audio - controls, audio interface capabilities, codec DAPM definition and codec IO - functions. + * Codec class drivers: The codec class driver is platform independent and + contains audio controls, audio interface capabilities, codec DAPM + definition and codec IO functions. This class extends to BT, FM and MODEM + ICs if required. Codec class drivers should be generic code that can run + on any architecture and machine. - * Platform driver: The platform driver contains the audio DMA engine and audio - interface drivers (e.g. I2S, AC97, PCM) for that platform. + * Platform class drivers: The platform class driver includes the audio DMA + engine driver, digital audio interface (DAI) drivers (e.g. I2S, AC97, PCM) + and any audio DSP drivers for that platform. - * Machine driver: The machine driver handles any machine specific controls and - audio events (e.g. turning on an amp at start of playback). + * Machine class driver: The machine driver class acts as the glue that + decribes and binds the other component drivers together to form an ALSA + "sound card device". It handles any machine specific controls and + machine level audio events (e.g. turning on an amp at start of playback). Documentation @@ -84,3 +89,7 @@ machine.txt: Machine driver internals. pop_clicks.txt: How to minimise audio artifacts. clocking.txt: ASoC clocking for best power performance. + +jack.txt: ASoC jack detection. + +DPCM.txt: Dynamic PCM - Describes DPCM with DSP examples. |