Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: qcom: glymur: Add Asus Zenbook A14 (UX3407NA)

[Chris Pouliot]

Hi Nicko,

I have an ASUS Zenbook A14 UX3407NA as well and have been investigating the audio issue further.

On my unit I see the same basic hardware layout you described: the two WSA8845 devices on swr0 attach, while the two devices described on swr3 remain unattached. I now have working stereo speakers and internal microphone on NixOS.

The currently working setup is:

keep the stock 4-channel GLYMUR-CRD AudioReach topology
remove the nonexistent WSA2/swr3 speaker path from the board/UCM configuration
constrain the WSA codec-DMA backend to 2 channels in the x1e80100 machine driver
map the frontend channel order so physical left/right, which land in PCM slots 0 and 2, are exposed as normal stereo

I have also started turning this into cleaner, distribution-independent patches for the DTS, AudioReach topology, and alsa-ucm-conf here:

https://github.com/chrispouliot/ux3407na-linux-audio

Those exact upstream-style patches have not been tested yet; they are currently intended as RFC material. In particular, I am not yet sure whether the correct upstream solution is a board-specific 2-channel AudioReach topology, or whether Glymur should retain the 4-channel frontend and express the 2-channel speaker constraint elsewhere.

I would appreciate any guidance on where that constraint is expected to live upstream.

Thanks,
Chris

On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 10:19:33AM -0600, Nicko van Someren wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2026, at 19:31, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > UX3407NA is a variant of the Asus Zenbook A14 built on the Qualcomm
> > Glymur platform. It comes with an 18-core X2 Elite SoC, 32GB DDR, and
> > the other typical Glymur platform capabilities.
> 
> Firstly, many thanks for this. I recently acquired one of these machines
> for some firmware work I'm doing and having a working Linux system on it
> makes my life much easier!
> 
> I tested this patch set, along with the others it depends on. I have it
> mostly working now but ran into some issues that might indicate a few
> changes.
> 
> WIFI:
> 
> > + wifi@0 {
> > + compatible = "pci17cb,1107";
> > ...
> > + };
> 
> ASUS don't specify what WiFi7 chip they use, which is fairly normal since
> ASUS tends to swap the parts depending on supply. As a result, my machine
> has a QCC2072 (17cb:1112) WiFi/BT module not the WCN7850 (17cb:1107) device
> that you listed. Inspection of the hardware shows that the WiFi/BT module
> is a solder-down M.2 LGA module, but electrically that's still an M.2
> interface. Photos that I can find of the Zenbook A16 show it does the same.
> I think it might be more reliable to define a wlan-connector, like Konrad
> Dybcio did in the Asus Zenbook A16 (UX3607OA) (2/3) from 2026-07-21,
> rather than specify the chip.
> 
> 
> SOUND:
> 
> Regarding sound definitions, the dts declares four WSA8845s -- a woofer
> and tweeter per side, two on swr0 and two on swr3. 
> 
> > +&swr0 {
> > + status = "okay";
> > +
> > + /* WSA8845, left woofer */
> > ...
> > +
> > + /* WSA8845, left tweeter */
> > ...
> > +};
> > +
> > +&swr3 {
> > + status = "okay";
> > ...
> > + /* WSA8845, right woofer */
> > ...
> > +
> > + /* WSA8845, right tweeter */
> > ...
> > +};
> 
> This machine only has two speakers (again confirmed by physical inspection).
> Only swr0 shows attached on /sys/bus/soundwire/devices/sdw:*/status:
> 
>   sdw:1:0:0217:0204:00:0   Attached
>   sdw:1:0:0217:0204:00:1   Attached
>   sdw:4:0:0217:0204:00:0   UNATTACHED
>   sdw:4:0:0217:0204:00:1   UNATTACHED
> 
> I don't think that's a config fault either; the swr0 and swr3 reset lines are
> both claimed and in identical state of (out, 0, 2mA, no pull). It's not really
> a surprise that the cheaper model from ASUS would not use the full spec audio
> offered on the Qualcomm reference designs, but without a suitable
> UX3407NA-tplg.bin topology file I can't really tell more.
> 
> It appears that the audio setup is blocked further up the audio stack anyway.
> I hacked some dts changes, purloined blobs from Windows and got a stereo speaker
> setup configured. SoundWire is healthy, but no audio is possible because the DSP
> does not respond. The ADSP boots and the audio PD is reported up:
> 
>   remoteproc remoteproc1: remote processor adsp is now up
>   PDR: Indication received from msm/adsp/audio_pd, state: 0x1fffffff
>   qcom,apr ...: Adding APR/GPR dev: gprsvc:service:2:1
> 
> then, on every boot:
> 
>   qcom-apm gprsvc:service:2:1: CMD timeout for [1001021] opcode
> 
> I'm curious as to if you tested this (or if this even known to work on the
> Zenbook A16, Yoga Slim 7x or EliteBook X G2q with the other submissions). Do
> you know if/when the required firmware blobs will be forthcoming and
> upstreamed?
> 
> 
> HDMI:
> 
> The built-in HDMI cannot read EDID: the connector reports "connected" with
> a monitor attached but the EDID is 0 bytes and there are no modes. Less than
> 2 seconds into every boot, before any cable is involved:
> 
>   gcc_usb3_tert_phy_com_aux_clk status stuck at 'off'
>   Failed to enable clk 'com_aux': -16
>   phy phy-88e1000.phy.5: phy init failed --> -16
> 
> I have not really investigated this in detail.
> 
> 
> eDP:
> 
> eDP link training intermittently times out on resume, leaving visible flicker
> until another suspend/resume retrains it:
> 
>   [drm:msm_dp_ctrl_link_train_1_2] *ERROR* link training #2 on phy 0 failed. ret=-110
> 
> I am carrying the (unmerged) "phy: qcom: edp: update v8 power-on
> programming sequence" series, so this may be feedback for that rather than
> a report against mainline.
> 
> 
> Anyway, thank you again for this patch series. It got me to the point of
> having a very usable machine for my limited needs. If you have updates the
> need testing I'm happy to help.
> 
> Nicko
> 
>