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> -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
