Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.7 15/53] ASoC: SOF: Intel: add PCI IDs for ICL-H and TGL-H

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:42:21AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 7/2/20 6:18 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:21:24PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > From: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > > [ Upstream commit c8d2e2bfaeffa0f914330e8b4e45b986c8d30b58 ]

> > > Usually the DSP is not traditionally enabled on H skews but this might
> > > be used moving forward.

> > "This might be used moving forward"?

> There are two conditions for the SOF driver to be used in a distro:
> a) the DSP needs to be enabled (as reported by the pci class info)
> b) sound/hda/intel-dsp-config.c needs to contain a quirk to select SOF over
> the legacy HDaudio, such as presence of DMIC/SoundWire or a known vendor
> DMI.

> Traditionally for desktops neither a) nor b) are true, but this is changing:
> we will start adding quirks for specific product lines as requested by OEMs.

> Does this answer to your question?

The question was more of a why is this being backported one - without
those extra quirks this does nothing, and frankly with them it seems
like a *major* change someone might see in stable if they update their
kernel and it suddenly switches to an entirely different DSP software
stack.

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