On 2020-11-12 11:38 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > The module snd-intel-dspcfg, suggested by Jaroslav last year, > currently provide the means to select a PCI driver at run-time, based > on quirks, recommendations or user selection via a kernel > parameter. This capability removed a lot of confusions in > distributions and removed the need for recompilations to select legacy > HDaudio, SST or SOF drivers. > > This patchset extends the concept to ACPI devices. This was driven by > the desire to at some point deprecate the Atom/SST driver for Baytrail > and Cherrytrail, which is no longer maintained by Intel. By having the > SOF driver enabled by distributions for Baytrail/Cherrytrail, we can > enable more end-user tests and make the transition easier for > distributions (likely in 2021 at this point). > > This patchset provides the same solution for Broadwell, mainly to have > a single build for all Intel platforms. SOF on Broadwell remains an > option not recommended for distributions, as long as the 'catpt' > driver is maintained there is no burning desire to make SOF the > default on the three Broadwell-based platforms with the DSP > enabled. > Hello, Don't understand why I was omitted in CC for catpt-related patches. I'll try to do proper review tomorrow as it's late here but for starters: why do we need any intel-dsp-config changes for non-HDA platforms, what's the technical reason behind these? Czarek
