Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] arm64: dts: qcom: Add AYN QCS8550 Common
From: Val Packett
Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 20:00:47 EST
On 4/30/26 3:43 PM, Aaron Kling via B4 Relay wrote:
From: Teguh Sobirin <teguh@xxxxxxxx>
This contains everything common between the AYN QCS8550 devices. It will
be included by device specific dts'.
[..]
+
+ /* The tzlog label is required by ABL to apply a dtbo, but it can be on any node */
+ qcom_tzlog: chosen {
[..]
+
+ /* The arch_timer label is unused here, but is required by ABL to apply a dtbo */
+ arch_timer: timer { };
awkwaaard.. Is there any problem with requiring erased dtbo? For phones that's generally what's done. Having junk from random dtbos is best avoided.
Also according to the pmOS wiki [1] at least on some of these devices, there's no need to boot from ABL at all! There's also U-Boot and you can switch between ABL and U-Boot at will (sounds awesome!)
[..]I guess there's no real standard/convention for the prefixes but maybe worth changing to the more readable "Amplifier L" / "Amplifier R" that's used on e.g. the fairphone,fp5?
+&i2c_hub_2 {
+ clock-frequency = <400000>;
+
+ status = "okay";
+
+ spk_amp_l: amplifier@34 {
+ compatible = "awinic,aw88166";
+ reg = <0x34>;
+ #sound-dai-cells = <0>;
+ reset-gpios = <&tlmm 103 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ awinic,audio-channel = <0>;
+ awinic,sync-flag;
+ sound-name-prefix = "SPK_L";
+ };Also #sound-dai-cells should go last, with a newline before it.
+
+ spk_amp_r: amplifier@35 {
+ compatible = "awinic,aw88166";
+ reg = <0x35>;
+ #sound-dai-cells = <0>;
+ reset-gpios = <&tlmm 100 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;The awinic properties should also be a newline-separated "block", before the # one.
+ awinic,audio-channel = <1>;
+ awinic,sync-flag;
+ sound-name-prefix = "SPK_R";
+ };
+};
[..]
BTW, do these "just work" right now?
If so, I guess you're lucky and the "firmware" / register config binary for these devices configures a 16-bit 48kHz format which is the one the soc driver forces.. because the aw88166 driver, just like other awinic amp drivers, doesn't negotiate the format stuff at all and blatantly lies about supporting multiple formats :) I'm currently fixing this for aw88261[2] but eventually we'll probably need to actually kinda unify these drivers..
[1]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/AYN_Thor_(ayn-thor)
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260420213250.215465-2-val@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
~val