ASoC: SOF: ipc4-topology: add SoundWire/ALH aggregation support
Some SoundWire hardware topologies rely on different amplifiers or capture devices connected on different links. These devices need to be 'aggregated', remain synchronized and be handled as a single logical device. In the IPC3 solution, the aggregation for amplifiers was handled by a firmware 'demux' component. In the IPC4 solution, the demux component is not needed, the gateway component can handle multiple ALH/DMA transfers at the same time. This change makes the topology slightly more complicated in that only one ALH DAI will be connected in the topology with the gateway. The other DAIs that are part of the 'aggregated' dailink are not shown in the DAPM graph as connected to the gateway, but they will however be activated thanks to a feature in soc-dapm.c where events are forwarded to all DAIs in the dailink (see soc_dapm_stream_event). The topology also sets the same stream name for all widgets, dais and dailinks, so a search for the stream name helps identify cases where SoundWire/ALH aggregation is needed. Signed-off-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220614092630.20144-1-yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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