Re: [PATCH 0/2] ALSA: hda: aw88399: Add per-model firmware loading

From: Takashi Iwai

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 15:17:29 EST


On Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:43:55 +0200,
Marco Giunta wrote:
>
> The AW88399 HDA side codec driver currently requests firmware using
> the same hardcoded generic filename ("aw88399_acf.bin") as the ASoC driver
> it was derived from.
> This requires users to manually extract the firmware from the
> Windows driver, rename it with this model-independent name, and place
> it in /lib/firmware, which is not sustainable for distribution packaging.
>
> This series adds support for per-model firmware filenames based on the
> ACPI subsystem ID (e.g. "awinic/aw88399_acf_17aa3938.bin"), making the
> driver compatible with the linux-firmware repository's per-device naming
> convention.
> ACF firmware binaries for the currently supported Lenovo Legion models
> have been submitted to the linux-firmware ML by AWINIC [1] (currently
> pending review).
>
> The series is as follows:
>
> * Patch 1 adds a name parameter to the shared firmware request function
> so callers can specify the filename.
>
> * Patch 2 uses the ACPI subsystem ID to construct model-specific firmware
> names in the HDA driver.
>
> Note: since there are still some AW88399 patches either pending merge or
> that have yet to cross the ASoC/HDA bridge (see the note in [2]), I based
> this series on linux-next, meaning a rebase may be needed before merging.
> Apologies for the extra noise; I'm sending the series now for review
> as I'd rather not miss the 7.4 merge window.

Applied both patches now. Thanks.


Takashi