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Merge tag 'soundwire-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/soundwire
Pull soundwire updates from Vinod Koul: - Support for SoundWire Bulk Register Access (BRA) protocol in core along with Intel driver support and ASoC bits required - AMD driver updates and support for ACP 7.0 and 7.1 platforms * tag 'soundwire-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/soundwire: (28 commits) soundwire: take in count the bandwidth of a prepared stream ASoC: rt711-sdca: add DP0 support soundwire: debugfs: add interface for BPT/BRA transfers ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-sdw-bpt: add CHAIN_DMA support soundwire: intel_ace2x: add BPT send_async/wait callbacks soundwire: intel: add BPT context definition ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda-sdw-bpt: add helpers for SoundWire BPT DMA soundwire: intel_auxdevice: add indirection for BPT send_async/wait soundwire: cadence: add BTP/BRA helpers to format data soundwire: bus: add bpt_stream pointer soundwire: bus: add send_async/wait APIs for BPT protocol soundwire: stream: reuse existing code for BPT stream soundwire: stream: special-case the bus compute_params() routine soundwire: stream: extend sdw_alloc_stream() to take 'type' parameter soundwire: extend sdw_stream_type to BPT soundwire: cadence: add BTP support for DP0 Documentation: driver: add SoundWire BRA description soundwire: amd: change the log level for command response log soundwire: slave: fix an OF node reference leak in soundwire slave device soundwire: Use str_enable_disable-like helpers ...
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Bulk Register Access (BRA)
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==========================
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Conventions
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-----------
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Capitalized words used in this documentation are intentional and refer
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to concepts of the SoundWire 1.x specification.
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Introduction
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------------
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The SoundWire 1.x specification provides a mechanism to speed-up
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command/control transfers by reclaiming parts of the audio
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bandwidth. The Bulk Register Access (BRA) protocol is a standard
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solution based on the Bulk Payload Transport (BPT) definitions.
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The regular control channel uses Column 0 and can only send/retrieve
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one byte per frame with write/read commands. With a typical 48kHz
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frame rate, only 48kB/s can be transferred.
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The optional Bulk Register Access capability can transmit up to 12
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Mbits/s and reduce transfer times by several orders of magnitude, but
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has multiple design constraints:
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(1) Each frame can only support a read or a write transfer, with a
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10-byte overhead per frame (header and footer response).
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(2) The read/writes SHALL be from/to contiguous register addresses
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in the same frame. A fragmented register space decreases the
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efficiency of the protocol by requiring multiple BRA transfers
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scheduled in different frames.
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(3) The targeted Peripheral device SHALL support the optional Data
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Port 0, and likewise the Manager SHALL expose audio-like Ports
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to insert BRA packets in the audio payload using the concepts of
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Sample Interval, HSTART, HSTOP, etc.
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(4) The BRA transport efficiency depends on the available
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bandwidth. If there are no on-going audio transfers, the entire
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frame minus Column 0 can be reclaimed for BRA. The frame shape
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also impacts efficiency: since Column0 cannot be used for
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BTP/BRA, the frame should rely on a large number of columns and
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minimize the number of rows. The bus clock should be as high as
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possible.
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(5) The number of bits transferred per frame SHALL be a multiple of
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8 bits. Padding bits SHALL be inserted if necessary at the end
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of the data.
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(6) The regular read/write commands can be issued in parallel with
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BRA transfers. This is convenient to e.g. deal with alerts, jack
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detection or change the volume during firmware download, but
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accessing the same address with two independent protocols has to
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be avoided to avoid undefined behavior.
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(7) Some implementations may not be capable of handling the
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bandwidth of the BRA protocol, e.g. in the case of a slow I2C
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bus behind the SoundWire IP. In this case, the transfers may
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need to be spaced in time or flow-controlled.
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(8) Each BRA packet SHALL be marked as 'Active' when valid data is
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to be transmitted. This allows for software to allocate a BRA
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stream but not transmit/discard data while processing the
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results or preparing the next batch of data, or allowing the
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peripheral to deal with the previous transfer. In addition BRA
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transfer can be started early on without data being ready.
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(9) Up to 470 bytes may be transmitted per frame.
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(10) The address is represented with 32 bits and does not rely on
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the paging registers used for the regular command/control
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protocol in Column 0.
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Error checking
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Firmware download is one of the key usages of the Bulk Register Access
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protocol. To make sure the binary data integrity is not compromised by
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transmission or programming errors, each BRA packet provides:
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(1) A CRC on the 7-byte header. This CRC helps the Peripheral Device
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check if it is addressed and set the start address and number of
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bytes. The Peripheral Device provides a response in Byte 7.
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(2) A CRC on the data block (header excluded). This CRC is
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transmitted as the last-but-one byte in the packet, prior to the
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footer response.
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The header response can be one of:
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(a) Ack
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(b) Nak
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(c) Not Ready
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The footer response can be one of:
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(1) Ack
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(2) Nak (CRC failure)
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(3) Good (operation completed)
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(4) Bad (operation failed)
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Example frame
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The example below is not to scale and makes simplifying assumptions
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for clarity. The different chunks in the BRA packets are not required
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to start on a new SoundWire Row, and the scale of data may vary.
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::
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+---+--------------------------------------------+
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+ | |
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+ | BRA HEADER |
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+ | |
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+ +--------------------------------------------+
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+ C | HEADER CRC |
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+ O +--------------------------------------------+
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+ M | HEADER RESPONSE |
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+ M +--------------------------------------------+
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+ A | |
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+ N | |
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+ D | DATA |
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+ | |
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+ | |
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+ | |
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+ +--------------------------------------------+
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+ | DATA CRC |
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+ +--------------------------------------------+
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+ | FOOTER RESPONSE |
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+---+--------------------------------------------+
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Assuming the frame uses N columns, the configuration shown above can
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be programmed by setting the DP0 registers as:
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- HSTART = 1
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- HSTOP = N - 1
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- Sampling Interval = N
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- WordLength = N - 1
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Addressing restrictions
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The Device Number specified in the Header follows the SoundWire
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definitions, and broadcast and group addressing are permitted. For now
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the Linux implementation only allows for a single BPT transfer to a
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single device at a time. This might be revisited at a later point as
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an optimization to send the same firmware to multiple devices, but
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this would only be beneficial for single-link solutions.
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In the case of multiple Peripheral devices attached to different
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Managers, the broadcast and group addressing is not supported by the
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SoundWire specification. Each device must be handled with separate BRA
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streams, possibly in parallel - the links are really independent.
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Unsupported features
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The Bulk Register Access specification provides a number of
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capabilities that are not supported in known implementations, such as:
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(1) Transfers initiated by a Peripheral Device. The BRA Initiator is
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always the Manager Device.
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(2) Flow-control capabilities and retransmission based on the
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'NotReady' header response require extra buffering in the
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SoundWire IP and are not implemented.
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Bi-directional handling
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The BRA protocol can handle writes as well as reads, and in each
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packet the header and footer response are provided by the Peripheral
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Target device. On the Peripheral device, the BRA protocol is handled
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by a single DP0 data port, and at the low-level the bus ownership can
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will change for header/footer response as well as the data transmitted
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during a read.
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On the host side, most implementations rely on a Port-like concept,
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with two FIFOs consuming/generating data transfers in parallel
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(Host->Peripheral and Peripheral->Host). The amount of data
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consumed/produced by these FIFOs is not symmetrical, as a result
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hardware typically inserts markers to help software and hardware
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interpret raw data
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Each packet will typically have:
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(1) a 'Start of Packet' indicator.
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(2) an 'End of Packet' indicator.
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(3) a packet identifier to correlate the data requested and
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transmitted, and the error status for each frame
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Hardware implementations can check errors at the frame level, and
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retry a transfer in case of errors. However, as for the flow-control
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case, this requires extra buffering and intelligence in the
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hardware. The Linux support assumes that the entire transfer is
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cancelled if a single error is detected in one of the responses.
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Abstraction required
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There are no standard registers or mandatory implementation at the
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Manager level, so the low-level BPT/BRA details must be hidden in
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Manager-specific code. For example the Cadence IP format above is not
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known to the codec drivers.
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Likewise, codec drivers should not have to know the frame size. The
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computation of CRC and handling of responses is handled in helpers and
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Manager-specific code.
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The host BRA driver may also have restrictions on pages allocated for
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DMA, or other host-DSP communication protocols. The codec driver
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should not be aware of any of these restrictions, since it might be
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reused in combination with different implementations of Manager IPs.
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Concurrency between BRA and regular read/write
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The existing 'nread/nwrite' API already relies on a notion of start
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address and number of bytes, so it would be possible to extend this
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API with a 'hint' requesting BPT/BRA be used.
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However BRA transfers could be quite long, and the use of a single
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mutex for regular read/write and BRA is a show-stopper. Independent
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operation of the control/command and BRA transfers is a fundamental
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requirement, e.g. to change the volume level with the existing regmap
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interface while downloading firmware. The integration must however
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ensure that there are no concurrent access to the same address with
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the command/control protocol and the BRA protocol.
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In addition, the 'sdw_msg' structure hard-codes support for 16-bit
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addresses and paging registers which are irrelevant for BPT/BRA
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support based on native 32-bit addresses. A separate API with
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'sdw_bpt_msg' makes more sense.
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One possible strategy to speed-up all initialization tasks would be to
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start a BRA transfer for firmware download, then deal with all the
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"regular" read/writes in parallel with the command channel, and last
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to wait for the BRA transfers to complete. This would allow for a
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degree of overlap instead of a purely sequential solution. As such,
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the BRA API must support async transfers and expose a separate wait
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function.
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Peripheral/bus interface
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The bus interface for BPT/BRA is made of two functions:
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- sdw_bpt_send_async(bpt_message)
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This function sends the data using the Manager
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implementation-defined capabilities (typically DMA or IPC
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protocol).
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Queueing is currently not supported, the caller
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needs to wait for completion of the requested transfer.
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- sdw_bpt_wait()
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This function waits for the entire message provided by the
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codec driver in the 'send_async' stage. Intermediate status for
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smaller chunks will not be provided back to the codec driver,
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only a return code will be provided.
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Regmap use
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Existing codec drivers rely on regmap to download firmware to
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Peripherals. regmap exposes an async interface similar to the
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send/wait API suggested above, so at a high-level it would seem
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natural to combine BRA and regmap. The regmap layer could check if BRA
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is available or not, and use a regular read-write command channel in
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the latter case.
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The regmap integration will be handled in a second step.
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BRA stream model
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For regular audio transfers, the machine driver exposes a dailink
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connecting CPU DAI(s) and Codec DAI(s).
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This model is not required BRA support:
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(1) The SoundWire DAIs are mainly wrappers for SoundWire Data
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Ports, with possibly some analog or audio conversion
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capabilities bolted behind the Data Port. In the context of
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BRA, the DP0 is the destination. DP0 registers are standard and
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can be programmed blindly without knowing what Peripheral is
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connected to each link. In addition, if there are multiple
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Peripherals on a link and some of them do not support DP0, the
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write commands to program DP0 registers will generate harmless
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COMMAND_IGNORED responses that will be wired-ORed with
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responses from Peripherals which support DP0. In other words,
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the DP0 programming can be done with broadcast commands, and
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the information on the Target device can be added only in the
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BRA Header.
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(2) At the CPU level, the DAI concept is not useful for BRA; the
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machine driver will not create a dailink relying on DP0. The
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only concept that is needed is the notion of port.
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(3) The stream concept relies on a set of master_rt and slave_rt
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concepts. All of these entities represent ports and not DAIs.
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(4) With the assumption that a single BRA stream is used per link,
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that stream can connect master ports as well as all peripheral
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DP0 ports.
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(5) BRA transfers only make sense in the context of one
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Manager/Link, so the BRA stream handling does not rely on the
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concept of multi-link aggregation allowed by regular DAI links.
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Audio DMA support
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Some DMAs, such as HDaudio, require an audio format field to be
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set. This format is in turn used to define acceptable bursts. BPT/BRA
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support is not fully compatible with these definitions in that the
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format and bandwidth may vary between read and write commands.
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In addition, on Intel HDaudio Intel platforms the DMAs need to be
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programmed with a PCM format matching the bandwidth of the BPT/BRA
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transfer. The format is based on 192kHz 32-bit samples, and the number
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of channels varies to adjust the bandwidth. The notion of channel is
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completely notional since the data is not typical audio
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PCM. Programming such channels helps reserve enough bandwidth and adjust
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FIFO sizes to avoid xruns.
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Alignment requirements are currently not enforced at the core level
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but at the platform-level, e.g. for Intel the data sizes must be
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multiples of 32 bytes.

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