Re: [PATCH v2 04/16] ASoC: qcom: dt-bindings: add bindings Audio Processing manager

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 28/07/2021 18:36, Rob Herring wrote:

> > This all looks fairly similar to the prior Qcom audio binding(s). It
> > would be nice to not see this all re-invented.

> AudioReach is a new DSP signal processing framework Which is different to
> its previous DSP firmware(aka Elite).
> It makes use of ASoC Topology to load audio graphs on to the DSP which is
> then managed by APM (Audio Processing Manager) service.

> So internals are not exactly same.

> From device tree side we might end up with similar layout, but there are
> some subtle differences like clocks are managed by q6prm service instead of
> q6afe service in old firmware, front-end pcm dais definitions come from ASoC
> topology.

The software we're running on the hardware shouldn't impact how the
hardware is described, it should be posible to switch DSP frameworks on
the same hardware - look at what Intel have done with SoF.

> 
> Are you suggesting that we should reuse the old bindings (q6afe, q6asm) by
> add new compatible strings along with differences ?
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   .../devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml | 87 +++++++++++++++++++
> > >   include/dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.h        |  8 ++
> > >   2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
> > >   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml
> > >   create mode 100644 include/dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.h
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..6f27567523a9
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > > +%YAML 1.2
> > > +---
> > > +$id: "http://devicetree.org/schemas/sound/qcom,q6apm.yaml#";
> > > +$schema: "http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#";
> > > +
> > > +title: Qualcomm Audio Process Manager binding
> > > +
> > > +maintainers:
> > > +  - Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +
> > > +description: |
> > > +  This binding describes the Qualcomm Audio Process Manager service in DSP
> > > +
> > > +properties:
> > > +  compatible:
> > > +    const: qcom,q6apm
> > > +
> > > +  reg:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +  '#address-cells':
> > > +    const: 1
> > > +
> > > +  '#size-cells':
> > > +    const: 0
> > > +
> > > +#APM Services
> > > +patternProperties:
> > > +  'apm@[0-9]+$':
> > 
> > This means '.*apm' for the node name. Did you need a '^'?
> > 
> yes we need begins with '^' , will add that in next version.
> 
> > > +    type: object
> > > +    description:
> > > +      APM devices use subnodes for services.
> > > +
> > > +    properties:
> > > +      compatible:
> > > +        enum:
> > > +          - qcom,q6apm-dais
> > > +          - qcom,q6apm-bedais
> > > +
> > > +      iommus:
> > > +        maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +      "#sound-dai-cells":
> > > +        const: 1
> > > +
> > > +      reg:
> > > +        maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +    required:
> > > +      - compatible
> > > +      - reg
> > > +      - '#sound-dai-cells'
> > > +
> > > +    additionalProperties: false
> > > +
> > > +required:
> > > +  - compatible
> > > +  - reg
> > > +
> > > +additionalProperties: false
> > > +
> > > +examples:
> > > +  - |
> > > +    gpr {
> > > +        #address-cells = <1>;
> > > +        #size-cells = <0>;
> > > +        gprservice@1 {
> > > +          compatible = "qcom,q6apm";
> > > +          reg = <1>;
> > > +
> > > +          #address-cells = <1>;
> > > +          #size-cells = <0>;
> > > +
> > > +          apm@1 {
> > > +            compatible = "qcom,q6apm-dais";
> > > +            #sound-dai-cells = <1>;
> > > +            reg = <1>;
> > > +          };
> > > +
> > > +          apm@2 {
> > > +            compatible = "qcom,q6apm-bedais";
> > > +            #sound-dai-cells = <1>;
> > > +            reg = <2>;
> > > +          };
> > > +        };
> > > +    };
> > > diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.h b/include/dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.h
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..3c3987eb6e95
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/include/dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6apm.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > > +#ifndef __DT_BINDINGS_Q6_APM_H__
> > > +#define __DT_BINDINGS_Q6_APM_H__
> > > +
> > > +/* Audio Process Manager (APM) virtual ports IDs */
> > > +#include <dt-bindings/sound/qcom,q6afe.h>
> > 
> > Why add this indirection? Rename the file if you need something to cover
> > both.
> 
> Thats a good idea,
> 
> These are basically audio endpoint device ids which should be same across
> different audio firmwares.
> 
> I can rename this to dt-bindings/sound/qcom,adsp-audio-ports.h or something
> more generic to be able to reuse.
> 
> --srini
> > 
> > > +
> > > +#endif /* __DT_BINDINGS_Q6_APM_H__ */
> > > -- 
> > > 2.21.0
> > > 
> > >

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