Re: [PATCH 00/12] ASoC: Intel: Remove skylake driver

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 11:43:16AM +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote:
> A spiritual successor to haswell/baytrail removal series [1].
> 
> The avs-driver found in sound/soc/intel/avs is a direct replacement to
> the existing skylake-driver. It covers all features supported by it and
> more and aligns with the recommended flows and requirements based on
> Windows driver equivalent.
> 
> The skylake-driver related UAPI has been removed with "ASoC: Drop
> soc-topology ABI v4 support" [2].
> 
> For the official kernel tree the deprecation begun with v6.0. Most
> skylake-drivers users moved to avs- or SOF-driver when AudioDSP
> capabilities are available on the platform or to snd-hda-intel
> (sound/pci/hda) when such capabilities are not.
> 
> For the supported trees the deprecation begun with v5.4 with v5.15 being
> the first where the skylake-driver is disabled entirely.
> 
> All machine board drivers that consume this DSP driver have their
> replacements present within sound/soc/intel/avs/boards/ directory.

I like the idea of having better and unified equivalent!
FWIW,
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko