linux/include
Mark Brown 706d2dc026
ASoC: basic support for configuring bus keepers
James Calligeros <jcalligeros99@gmail.com> says:

This series introduces some infrastructure to allow platform drivers
to specify what a DAI should be doing when it is not active on the
bus. The primary use case for this is configuring bus keepers which
may be integrated into various codecs. The instigating use case for
this functionality is an interesting bus topology on Apple Silicon
laptops with multiple codecs.

Most Apple Silicon laptops have six codecs split into groups of
three, driving a pair of dual opposed woofers and a tweeter for
L/R stereo sound. These codecs report the voltage and current across
their connected voice coils back to the SoC via the SDOUT pin,
represented as PCM data sent via configurable TDM slots. This data is
used in conjunction with the connected speaker's Thiele/Small Parameters
to ensure that the speaker is not being driven to levels that would
permanently damage them. This is integrated into CoreAudio on macOS.
speakersafetyd[1] handles this for Linux.

All of the codec SDOUT pins are attached to a single receiver port
on the SoC's I2S peripheral, however are split across two physical
data lines (one each for the left and right codec groups). The receiver
has an OR gate in front of it, which is used to sum the two lines.

If at any point a codec is trying to transmit data, and the "opposite"
line ends up floating high, the transmitting codec's data will be
corrupted. We need to guarantee that the idle line stays idle.

In the downstream Asahi Linux kernel[2], we set up one codec in each
group to zero-fill or pull down its line while a codec on the opposite
line is actively transmitting. This is done entirely in the codec
driver, however this approach is over-fit for this one use case. This
sort of functionality may also be of use for other hardware, so following
previous mailing list discussions[3], I have tried to expose the
functionality in a more configurable and generic way.

I have integrated this approach into our downstream platform driver
and select Devicetrees as an example of how this mechanism is intended
to be used[4].

[1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/speakersafetyd
[2] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/tree/bits/070-audio
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20250227-apple-codec-changes-v3-17-cbb130030acf@gmail.com/
[4] https://github.com/chadmed/tree/tdm-revised2

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260301-tdm-idle-slots-v3-0-c6ac5351489a@gmail.com
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acpi mailbox: platform and core updates 2026-02-14 11:13:32 -08:00
asm-generic kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS 2026-02-26 11:50:19 -07:00
clocksource clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer_mmio: Switch over to standalone driver 2025-09-23 12:31:50 +02:00
crypto Networking changes for 7.0 2026-02-11 19:31:52 -08:00
cxl ACPI: extlog: Trace CPER CXL Protocol Error Section 2026-01-14 17:09:34 +01:00
drm drm/dp: Add definition for Panel Replay full-line granularity 2026-03-04 15:26:08 +02:00
dt-bindings phy-for-7.0 2026-02-17 11:40:04 -08:00
hyperv hyperv-next for v7.0 2026-02-20 08:48:31 -08:00
keys keys/trusted_keys: establish PKWM as a trusted source 2026-01-30 09:27:26 +05:30
kunit kunit: irq: Ensure timer doesn't fire too frequently 2026-02-24 14:44:21 -08:00
kvm KVM: arm64: Use standard seq_file iterator for vgic-debug debugfs 2026-02-02 10:59:25 +00:00
linux ASoC: amd: Move to GPIO descriptors 2026-03-16 01:11:23 +00:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Remove -w build flag and fix warnings 2022-09-05 17:28:25 +10:00
media [GIT PULL for v7.0] media updates 2026-02-11 12:20:25 -08:00
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Add RZ/G3E xSPI support 2025-05-01 12:22:25 +02:00
misc cxl: Remove driver 2025-03-16 22:04:27 +11:00
net net: prevent NULL deref in ip[6]tunnel_xmit() 2026-03-12 16:03:41 +01:00
pcmcia pcmcia: remove PCCARD_IODYN 2025-08-16 15:37:47 +02:00
ras PCI/AER: Report CXL or PCIe bus type in AER trace logging 2026-01-22 15:07:04 -07:00
rdma RDMA/core: Check id_priv->restricted_node_type in cma_listen_on_dev() 2026-02-25 07:50:10 -05:00
rv rv: Fix multiple definition of __pcpu_unique_da_mon_this 2026-02-20 13:12:00 +01:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20260212 2026-02-12 15:43:02 -08:00
soc Reset controller updates for v6.20 2026-01-29 10:24:25 +01:00
sound ASoC: basic support for configuring bus keepers 2026-03-16 01:13:07 +00:00
target scsi: target: core: Add emulation for REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION 2025-12-16 21:07:22 -05:00
trace vfs-7.0-rc3.fixes 2026-03-04 15:03:16 -08:00
uapi ARM: 2026-03-15 12:22:10 -07:00
ufs scsi: ufs: host: mediatek: Require CONFIG_PM 2026-02-03 22:28:44 -05:00
vdso vdso: Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy() 2026-01-14 08:56:41 +01:00
video sysfb: Move edid_info into sysfb_primary_display 2025-12-16 14:12:44 +01:00
xen xen/xenbus: better handle backend crash 2026-03-04 15:31:40 +01:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00