[PATCH 0/3] Enable shared GPIO for Apple Silicon audio support
From: James Calligeros <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-31 11:33:13
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asahi, linux-sound, lkml
Hi folks, On Apple Silicon Macs, every speaker codec's software shutdown pin is connected to the same GPIO line. This line must be pulled high whenever any codec asserts it so. This makes power management impossible. When we goe through the list of codecs and call each suspend/resume, the GPIO line is asserted low or high by the first suspended/resumed codec. This causes issues for the subsequent codecs; they are already shut off by the time we try to cache the register state on suspend. In the downstream Asahi Linux kernel[1], we were previously (ab)using the regulator API to work around this safely. We replaced the shutdown-gpios property in the codec Devicetree nodes with a virtual regulator which acts as a proxy for the GPIO line. The regulator will not deassert the pin until every consumer wants it off, and it will assert it as soon as any one codec requires it. Now that the kernel has shared GPIO support, this has become unnecessary. The first commit in this series enables shared GPIO for ARCH_APPLE so that we can take advantage of this new(ish) infrastructure. The shared GPIO infrastructure considers the first state change of a line to be the "default" state, which is the state that it will allow to be asserted without all consumers agreeing. Currently the TAS2764 and TAS2770 drivers initialise the shutdown GPIO high, which means the first change is to low. This does not help us, as the line will not be reasserted on resume until all codecs have tried to assert it. Since both drivers explicitly pull the line high on codec probe, we can initialise it low, causing the first state change to be from low to high. This makes the shared GPIO proxy behave as we intend. The second and third commits in this series implement this. This has been enabled in the Asahi Linux kernel since 7.1.9, and addresses the last obstacle to attempting to upstream the machine driver for this platform. We intend to take the Kconfig patch via our soc tree. The two codec driver changes should be taken via asoc. Regards, James [1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux --- James Calligeros (3): arm64: Kconfig: Select HAVE_SHARED_GPIOS for Apple Silicon ASoC: tas2764: Initialise SDZ GPIO low ASoC: tas2770: Initialise SDZ GPIO low arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms | 1 + sound/soc/codecs/tas2764.c | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/tas2770.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- base-commit: cf72cbb39da84b6f02f90c07f33b102fc10b16f0 change-id: 20260829-apple-shared-gpio-60f86e74e35a Best regards, -- James Calligeros [off-list ref]