Hi Guys,
We have received reports that on some Kabylake laptops (Acer Swift
SF314-54/55 and Lenovo Yoga C930...etc), all sound cards no longer be
detected after upgrade to kernel later than 5.8. These laptops have
one thing in common, all of them have Realtek audio codec and connect
the internal microphone to DMIC of the Intel SST controller either
[8086:9d71] or [8086:9dc8]. Please refer to
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201251#c246 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1915117.
From the dmesg from kernel 5.8, the sound related parts only show
as follows but the expected snd_hda_codec_realtek and the snd_soc_skl
are not even loaded then.
[ 13.357495] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI
class/subclass/prog-if info 0x040100
[ 13.357500] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on
Skylake+ platform, using SST driver
Building the kernel with the CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_KBL removed can
load the snd_hda_codec_realtek successfully and the pulseaudio and
alsa-utils can detect the sound cards again. The result of bisecting
between kernel 5.4 and 5.8 also get similar result, reverting the
commit "ALSA: hda: Allow SST driver on SKL and KBL platforms with
DMIC" can fix the issue. I tried to generate the required firmware for
snd_soc_skl but it did not help. Please refer to what I did in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1915117/comments/14
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1915117/comments/18.
Since the skl_hda_dsp_generic-tplg.bin and dfw_sst.bin are not in
the linux-firmware. The Intel SST support for Skylake family is not
yet complete. Can we simply revert the "ALSA: hda: Allow SST driver on
SKL and KBL platforms with DMIC" in the current stage and wait for SOF
support for Skylake family? Or please suggest a better solution for
this. Thanks
Chris
