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SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14

([Multimedia] 6 Hours Ago Multi-Lane SoundWire)


All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals.

The main feature of the SoundWire updates for Linux 6.14 is enabling multi-lane support.

Optional extensions to the SoundWire specification allow for multiple data lanes to be combined for the SoundWire bus for greater bandwidth. SoundWire multi-lane devices can use up to eight data lanes but most SoundWire devices are just one-lane / two-pin designs. With the SoundWire multi-lane support, it relies on lane connection information exposed via ACPI for obtaining the properties on the multiple lanes.

The multi-lane support is the "big" feature of the SoundWire code for Linux 6.14 with the full list of patches documented via [1]this pull request .



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z5p17orwbsXaqeNj@vaman/



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