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- ===========================
- SoundWire Subsystem Summary
- ===========================
- SoundWire is a new interface ratified in 2015 by the MIPI Alliance.
- SoundWire is used for transporting data typically related to audio
- functions. SoundWire interface is optimized to integrate audio devices in
- mobile or mobile inspired systems.
- SoundWire is a 2-pin multi-drop interface with data and clock line. It
- facilitates development of low cost, efficient, high performance systems.
- Broad level key features of SoundWire interface include:
- (1) Transporting all of payload data channels, control information, and setup
- commands over a single two-pin interface.
- (2) Lower clock frequency, and hence lower power consumption, by use of DDR
- (Dual Data Rate) data transmission.
- (3) Clock scaling and optional multiple data lanes to give wide flexibility
- in data rate to match system requirements.
- (4) Device status monitoring, including interrupt-style alerts to the Master.
- The SoundWire protocol supports up to eleven Slave interfaces. All the
- interfaces share the common Bus containing data and clock line. Each of the
- Slaves can support up to 14 Data Ports. 13 Data Ports are dedicated to audio
- transport. Data Port0 is dedicated to transport of Bulk control information,
- each of the audio Data Ports (1..14) can support up to 8 Channels in
- transmit or receiving mode (typically fixed direction but configurable
- direction is enabled by the specification). Bandwidth restrictions to
- ~19.2..24.576Mbits/s don't however allow for 11*13*8 channels to be
- transmitted simultaneously.
- Below figure shows an example of connectivity between a SoundWire Master and
- two Slave devices. ::
- +---------------+ +---------------+
- | | Clock Signal | |
- | Master |-------+-------------------------------| Slave |
- | Interface | | Data Signal | Interface 1 |
- | |-------|-------+-----------------------| |
- +---------------+ | | +---------------+
- | |
- | |
- | |
- +--+-------+--+
- | |
- | Slave |
- | Interface 2 |
- | |
- +-------------+
- Terminology
- ===========
- The MIPI SoundWire specification uses the term 'device' to refer to a Master
- or Slave interface, which of course can be confusing. In this summary and
- code we use the term interface only to refer to the hardware. We follow the
- Linux device model by mapping each Slave interface connected on the bus as a
- device managed by a specific driver. The Linux SoundWire subsystem provides
- a framework to implement a SoundWire Slave driver with an API allowing
- 3rd-party vendors to enable implementation-defined functionality while
- common setup/configuration tasks are handled by the bus.
- Bus:
- Implements SoundWire Linux Bus which handles the SoundWire protocol.
- Programs all the MIPI-defined Slave registers. Represents a SoundWire
- Master. Multiple instances of Bus may be present in a system.
- Slave:
- Registers as SoundWire Slave device (Linux Device). Multiple Slave devices
- can register to a Bus instance.
- Slave driver:
- Driver controlling the Slave device. MIPI-specified registers are controlled
- directly by the Bus (and transmitted through the Master driver/interface).
- Any implementation-defined Slave register is controlled by Slave driver. In
- practice, it is expected that the Slave driver relies on regmap and does not
- request direct register access.
- Programming interfaces (SoundWire Master interface Driver)
- ==========================================================
- SoundWire Bus supports programming interfaces for the SoundWire Master
- implementation and SoundWire Slave devices. All the code uses the "sdw"
- prefix commonly used by SoC designers and 3rd party vendors.
- Each of the SoundWire Master interfaces needs to be registered to the Bus.
- Bus implements API to read standard Master MIPI properties and also provides
- callback in Master ops for Master driver to implement its own functions that
- provides capabilities information. DT support is not implemented at this
- time but should be trivial to add since capabilities are enabled with the
- ``device_property_`` API.
- The Master interface along with the Master interface capabilities are
- registered based on board file, DT or ACPI.
- Following is the Bus API to register the SoundWire Bus:
- .. code-block:: c
- int sdw_bus_master_add(struct sdw_bus *bus,
- struct device *parent,
- struct fwnode_handle)
- {
- sdw_master_device_add(bus, parent, fwnode);
- mutex_init(&bus->lock);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bus->slaves);
- /* Check ACPI for Slave devices */
- sdw_acpi_find_slaves(bus);
- /* Check DT for Slave devices */
- sdw_of_find_slaves(bus);
- return 0;
- }
- This will initialize sdw_bus object for Master device. "sdw_master_ops" and
- "sdw_master_port_ops" callback functions are provided to the Bus.
- "sdw_master_ops" is used by Bus to control the Bus in the hardware specific
- way. It includes Bus control functions such as sending the SoundWire
- read/write messages on Bus, setting up clock frequency & Stream
- Synchronization Point (SSP). The "sdw_master_ops" structure abstracts the
- hardware details of the Master from the Bus.
- "sdw_master_port_ops" is used by Bus to setup the Port parameters of the
- Master interface Port. Master interface Port register map is not defined by
- MIPI specification, so Bus calls the "sdw_master_port_ops" callback
- function to do Port operations like "Port Prepare", "Port Transport params
- set", "Port enable and disable". The implementation of the Master driver can
- then perform hardware-specific configurations.
- Programming interfaces (SoundWire Slave Driver)
- ===============================================
- The MIPI specification requires each Slave interface to expose a unique
- 48-bit identifier, stored in 6 read-only dev_id registers. This dev_id
- identifier contains vendor and part information, as well as a field enabling
- to differentiate between identical components. An additional class field is
- currently unused. Slave driver is written for a specific vendor and part
- identifier, Bus enumerates the Slave device based on these two ids.
- Slave device and driver match is done based on these two ids . Probe
- of the Slave driver is called by Bus on successful match between device and
- driver id. A parent/child relationship is enforced between Master and Slave
- devices (the logical representation is aligned with the physical
- connectivity).
- The information on Master/Slave dependencies is stored in platform data,
- board-file, ACPI or DT. The MIPI Software specification defines additional
- link_id parameters for controllers that have multiple Master interfaces. The
- dev_id registers are only unique in the scope of a link, and the link_id
- unique in the scope of a controller. Both dev_id and link_id are not
- necessarily unique at the system level but the parent/child information is
- used to avoid ambiguity.
- .. code-block:: c
- static const struct sdw_device_id slave_id[] = {
- SDW_SLAVE_ENTRY(0x025d, 0x700, 0),
- {},
- };
- MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(sdw, slave_id);
- static struct sdw_driver slave_sdw_driver = {
- .driver = {
- .name = "slave_xxx",
- .pm = &slave_runtime_pm,
- },
- .probe = slave_sdw_probe,
- .remove = slave_sdw_remove,
- .ops = &slave_slave_ops,
- .id_table = slave_id,
- };
- For capabilities, Bus implements API to read standard Slave MIPI properties
- and also provides callback in Slave ops for Slave driver to implement own
- function that provides capabilities information. Bus needs to know a set of
- Slave capabilities to program Slave registers and to control the Bus
- reconfigurations.
- Future enhancements to be done
- ==============================
- (1) Bulk Register Access (BRA) transfers.
- (2) Multiple data lane support.
- Links
- =====
- SoundWire MIPI specification 1.1 is available at:
- https://members.mipi.org/wg/All-Members/document/70290
- SoundWire MIPI DisCo (Discovery and Configuration) specification is
- available at:
- https://www.mipi.org/specifications/mipi-disco-soundwire
- (publicly accessible with registration or directly accessible to MIPI
- members)
- MIPI Alliance Manufacturer ID Page: mid.mipi.org
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