Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] ASoC: dt-bindings: support imx95's CM7 core

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Feb 12 2025 - 07:38:26 EST


On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 12:11:49PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 25-02-11, Laurentiu Mihalcea wrote:

> > > + const: fsl,imx95-cm7-sof

> > Albeit Krzysztof already add his Reviewed-by, can I ask why we need to
> > add the -sof suffix instead of -audio or so? SOF is a software project
> > but you can clearly run different software on the audio-copro as well.

> Sure you can run a different software project on the audio DSP but
> you will need a way to distinguish between the different projects.

> There might be different mailbox, memory configurations. So you will need
> to invent another suffix specific to the new project.

> We can make const: fsl,imx95-cm7-audio as the one used with SOF
> and think about a different name later for when another project will
> want to use the DSP.

I think the point here was that the DT should stay the same even if the
DSP firwmare changes, just as how changing the main OS shouldn't affect
the DT.

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