Re: [PATCH RFC v2 00/11] Add support for AUDIN driver in Amlogic GXBB

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 15/04/2026 16:49, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> On sam. 11 avril 2026 at 16:57, Valerio Setti <vsetti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This series adds support for I2S audio input (AUDIN) on the Amlogic GXBB
>> platform.
>>
>> It has been largely reshaped compared to what proposed in v1. Instead of
>> adding an HACK commit to allow AIU to export its clock so that also
>> AUDIN can control it, now the design closely follows what was implemented
>> in the Meson AXG platform. "aiu-encoder-i2s" becomes the shared interface
>> for playback/capture and it controls pins and clocks; data formatting
>> is implemented in formatters which are named "aiu-formatter-i2s" and
>> "audin-decoder-i2s" [1].
>> Formatters are DAPM widgets which are dynamically attached/detached to
>> the streams when the latters starts/stop, respectively.
>>
>> As of now only I2S input is supported, because it's the only one
>> I could physically test in my setup, but other input sources (ex: SPDIF)
>> are also allowed according to the SOC's manual and can be added in the
>> future.
>> This series was tested on an OdroidC2 board (Amlogic S905 SOC) with an
>> NXP SGTL5000 codec connected to its I2S input port.
>>
>> Since this work brings GX platform very close to the AXG one, once this
>> series is accepted, follow up work will be done in order to unify
>> GX and AXG formatters so as to minimize the number of implementations.
>>
>> The series a bit long and it includes changes to drivers, dt-bindings and
>> device-tree. Of course this only happens because this is an RFC and I
>> wanted to give a full overview of what will be the final design. If no
>> objection is raised, this patch series will be split into 3: one for
>> reshaping AIU and introducing formatters, one to add AUDIN driver and its
>> dt-bindings, one for the device-tree changes.
>>
>> [1]: Different naming for the aiu part is related to the fact that
>> "aiu-encoder-i2s" is already used for the interface and the goal
>> of this series was to introduce the minimum amount of changes that allow
>> I2S capture to work. Renaming can be implemented in the future as follow up
>> activity.
> 
> Thanks a lot for this awesome work Valerio. I know this was a lot of
> effort. With Mark and Krzysztof comments addressed
> 

My comments are still unanswered. One of the devices looks like
artificially split from some other, because one word register is not a
device.

Best regards,
Krzysztof