Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Fix Azulle Access 4 quirk detection

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:09:34 +0200,
Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
> On 6/26/24 00:04, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/25/24 23:37, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:35:31AM +0200, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 6/21/24 08:15, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> >>>> On 6/20/2024 9:27 PM, Allen Ballway wrote:
> >>>>> I filed a bug and after sharing the requested information it looks
> >>>>> like this device won't work on SOF without vendor support. Given this,
> >>>>> would the original patch returning this device to using HDAudio be
> >>>>> reasonable, or is there an preferred alternative to force this device
> >>>>> into using HDAudio?
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> And can you share link to the issue on mailing list, so someone reading
> >>>> this thread in the future doesn't have to guess where it is? ;)
> >>> 
> >>> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4981
> >>> 
> >>> I don't know what to do with this configuration.
> >>> We added a quirk to force SOF to be used for ES8336 devices. It worked
> >>> for some, but not for others. Now we have quite a few ES8336-based
> >>> platforms that are broken with zero support from the vendor, with
> >>> obscure I2C/GPIO/clk issues.
> >>> Are we going to tag each one of them and say 'not supported, use HDMI only'?
> >>> That's pushing a bit the notion of quirk...It would generate an endless
> >>> stream of patches. The alternative is to do nothing and ask that those
> >>> platforms revert to HDMI audio only with a kernel parameter. That latter
> >>> alternative has my vote.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Given that this apparently does not work for many ES8336 devices,
> >> would it make more sense to disable SOF support for those by default
> >> and _enable_ them with a kernel parameter ?
> > 
> > Some configurations work, so we would break them.
> > 
> 
> Yes, but for others it is a regression,

Is it?  The speaker should have never worked for them without SOF,
either.


Takashi

> so arguably the change to force-enable
> SOF caused a regression and should either be reverted or fixed such that all
> previously working configurations still work (even more so since fixing
> the problem one-by-one as affected systems are found is being rejected).
> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>