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>>>> +static int sof_dt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>> +{
>>>> +     struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>>>> +     const struct sof_dev_desc *desc;
>>>> +     /*TODO: create a generic snd_soc_xxx_mach */
>>>> +     struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach;
>>>
>>> I wonder if you really need to use the same structures. For Intel we get
>>> absolutely zero info from the firmware so rely on an ACPI codec ID as a
>>> key to find information on which firmware and topology to use, and which
>>> machine driver to load. You could have all this information in a DT blob?
>>
>> Yes. I see your point. I will still need to make a generic structure for
>> snd_soc_acpi_mach so that everyone can use sof_nocodec_setup function.
>>
>> Maybe something like this:
>>
>> struct snd_soc_mach {
>>    union {
>>    struct snd_soc_acpi_mach acpi_mach;
>>    struct snd_soc_of_mach of_mach;
>>    }
>> };
>>
>> and then change the prototype of sof_nocodec_setup.
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> I fixed all the comments except the one above. Replacing snd_soc_acpi_mach
> with a generic snd_soc_mach is not trivial task.
> 
> I wonder if it is acceptable to get the initial patches as they are
> now and later switch to
> generic ACPI/OF abstraction.
> 
> Asking this because for the moment on the i.MX side I have only
> implemented no codec
> version and we don't probe any of the machine drivers we have.
> 
> So, there is this only one member of snd_soc_acpi_mach that imx
> version is making use of:
> 
>    mach->drv_name = "sof-nocodec";
> 
> That's all.
> 
> I think the change as it is now is very clean and non-intrusive. Later
> we will get options to
> read firmware name and stuff from DT.
> 
> Anyhow, I don't think we can get rid of snd_dev_desc structure on
> i.MX. This will be used
> to store the information read from DT:
> 
> static struct sof_dev_desc sof_of_imx8qxp_desc = {
> »       .default_fw_path = "imx/sof",
> »       .default_tplg_path = "imx/sof-tplg",
> »       .nocodec_fw_filename = "sof-imx8.ri",
> »       .nocodec_tplg_filename = "sof-imx8-nocodec.tplg",
> »       .ops = &sof_imx8_ops,
> };
> 
> For the moment we will only use the default values.

Yes, that's fine for now. If you don't have a real machine driver then 
there's nothing urgent to change.

Is the new version on GitHub?

Thanks
-Pierre