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authorLiam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>2013-09-20 21:19:06 +0400
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>2013-09-23 15:06:24 +0400
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ASoC: Docs: Platform update
Update the platform class driver documentation and bring it up to date with the current code base. This includes multi component and DSP. Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
index d57efad37e0a..3a08a2c9150c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/soc/platform.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
ASoC Platform Driver
====================
-An ASoC platform driver can be divided into audio DMA and SoC DAI configuration
-and control. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must have no board
-specific code.
+An ASoC platform driver class can be divided into audio DMA drivers, SoC DAI
+drivers and DSP drivers. The platform drivers only target the SoC CPU and must
+have no board specific code.
Audio DMA
=========
@@ -64,3 +64,16 @@ Each SoC DAI driver must provide the following features:-
5) Suspend and resume (optional)
Please see codec.txt for a description of items 1 - 4.
+
+
+SoC DSP Drivers
+===============
+
+Each SoC DSP driver usually supplies the following features :-
+
+ 1) DAPM graph
+ 2) Mixer controls
+ 3) DMA IO to/from DSP buffers (if applicable)
+ 4) Definition of DSP front end (FE) PCM devices.
+
+Please see DPCM.txt for a description of item 4.