[PATCH 0/3] soundwire: qcom: add multi-master support

From: Srinivas Kandagatla

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 04:40:32 EST


This patch series adds support to the multi-master in existing soundwire
controller driver.

On Qualcomm Glymur SoC, both TX and RX soundwire controllers are wired
up in multi master mode connecting to an SDCA compliant Tambora codec.

One of the two controllers (tx,rx) act as primary controller in this
instance its tx which provides clock and control and some data lines and
other controller instance in this case rx act as dependent controller
providing extra data lanes to primary controller. This is called multi
master mode in Qualcomm Soundwire controller.

Multi Master mode allows synchronous transport across two independent
soundwire masters. This includes synchronized clock-stop, clock-resume,
clock scaling and bank switch between both masters, the Primary master
will ensure that.

>From the slave's point of view there is still one SoundWire bus with
one clock and one control lane; the extra DATA lanes just come from
a different pad on the SoC.

Currently the bindings are added in a way that its possible to add more
than one dependent, however to keep things simple the driver only
supports single dependent for now.

Topology (2+2 lane example):

Primary IP Dependent IP
+-----------------+ +-----------------+
| MM_SYNC <=====+=================+=====> MM_SYNC |
| | | |
| SWR_CLK ---+ | | |
| CTRL ---+ | | |
| DATA0 ---+ | | DATA0 ---+ |
| DATA1 ---+ | | DATA1 ---+ |
+--------------|--+ +------------|----+
| |
v v
+-----------+-----------+ +---------+---------+
| SWR_CLK, CTRL, | | bus DATA2, |
| bus DATA0, DATA1 | | DATA3 |
+-----------+-----------+ +---------+---------+
| |
+----------------+----------------+
|
v
+--------------+
| Slave |
+--------------+

This series adds multi-master support.

Patch 1 adds two new DT properties qcom,multi-master-mode and
qcom,multi-master-peer for describing the pair.

Patch 2 wires up the primary and dependent roles in the driver.

Patch 3 programs SWRM_V3_MM_SYNC_CONFIG on both sides so their frame
generators lock to a single SWR_CLK.

Tested on Glymur (SC8480XP) CRD with WCD9378 in compute mode. HPH
playback and mic capture both work.

Srinivas Kandagatla (3):
dt-bindings: soundwire: qcom: describe multi-master
soundwire: qcom: add multi-master support
soundwire: qcom: program MM_SYNC for multi-master

.../bindings/soundwire/qcom,soundwire.yaml | 109 ++++++++-
drivers/soundwire/qcom.c | 218 ++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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