Re: Fwd: Steam Deck OLED 6.8.2 nau8821-max fails

[Daniel Martin <dmanlfc@xxxxxxxxx>]

The manual patches were worked from the Steam Deck kernel, trial &
error with partial support in 6.6 at the time.
6.8 sources where this has been implemented recently were not yet
available or in linux-next.
Suffice to say the code matches up almost perfectly apart from the
enum issues which are thus being discussed.
I still go back to the point, apart from the Steam Deck, who else is
using this named topology file?
I don't think anyone is, therefore the enum numbering should match the
current Steam Deck kernel implementation & topology file.


On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 19:55, Cristian Ciocaltea
<cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/9/24 12:19 PM, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> > On 09.04.24 10:47, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >> On 4/9/24 11:04 AM, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >>> On 09.04.24 09:42, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >>>> On 4/9/24 7:44 AM, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >>>>> On 09.04.24 01:44, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >>>>>> On 4/7/24 10:47 AM, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 06.04.24 15:08, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Bugzilla, Daniel <dmanlfc@xxxxxxxxx> reported topology regression
> >>>>>>>> on Steam Deck OLED [1]. He wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I'm adding this here, I hope it's the correct place.
> >>>>>>>>> Currently the Steam Deck OLED fails with Kernel 6.8.2 when trying to initialise the topology for the device.
> >>>>>>>>> I'm using the `sof-vangogh-nau8821-max.tplg` file from the Steam Deck OLED and associated firmware.
> >>>>>>>> [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218677
> >>>>>>> A quick search made me find these posts/threads that foreshadow the problem:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231219030728.2431640-1-cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/a3357e1f-f354-4d4b-9751-6b2182dceea6@xxxxxxx/
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> From a quick look at the second discussion it seems a bit like we are
> >>>>>>> screwed, as iiutc topology files are out in the wild for one or the
> >>>>>>> other approach. So we might have to bite a bullet there and accept the
> >>>>>>> regression -- but I might easily be totally mistaken here. Would be good
> >>>>>>> in one of the experts (Venkata Prasad Potturu maybe?) could quickly
> >>>>>>> explain what's up here.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The problem here is that Steam Deck OLED provides a topology file which
> >>>>>> uses an incorrect DAI link ID for BT codec.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Patch [1] moves BT_BE_ID to position 2 in the enum, as expected by the
> >>>>>> topology, but this is not a change that can be accepted upstream as it
> >>>>>> would break other devices which rely on BT_BE_ID set to 3.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The proper solution would be to update the topology file on Steam Deck,
> >>>>>> but this is probably not straightforward to be accomplished as it would
> >>>>>> break the compatibility with the currently released (downstream)
> >>>>>> kernels.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hopefully, this sheds some more light on the matter.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231209205351.880797-11-cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Many thx, yes, this sheds some light on the matter. But there is one
> >>>>> remaining question: can we make both camps happy somehow? E.g. something
> >>>>> along the lines of "first detect if the topology file has BT_BE_ID in
> >>>>> position 2 or 3 and then act accordingly?
> >>>>
> >>>> Right, I have this on my TODOs list but haven't managed to dig into it
> >>>> yet. However, that would be most likely just another hack to be carried
> >>>> on until the transition to a fixed topology is completed.
> >>>
> >>> Well, sure it's a hack, but the thing is, our number one rule is "no
> >>> regressions" and the reporter apparently faces one (see start of the
> >>> thread). So to fulfill this rule it would be ideal to have a fix
> >>> available soonish or revert the culprit and reply it later together with
> >>> the fix.
> >>
> >> Hmm, unless I'm missing something, this shouldn't been considered a
> >> regression.  As I explained previously, the OLED model was launched with
> >>  a downstream implementation of the Vangogh SOF drivers on top of v6.1,
> >> as there was no upstream support back then.
> >>
> >> When AMD eventually completed the upstreaming process of their SOF
> >> drivers in v6.6, we ended up with this unfortunate ID assignments
> >> incompatibility.  Hence I cannot see how the mainline kernel would have
> >> worked without applying patch [1] above, unless the reporter
> >> experimented with a different topology (which is not the case if I got
> >> this right).
> >>
> >>> Do we know which change that went into 6.8 caused this? Or is a revert
> >>> out-of-the question as it will likely break things for other users that
> >>> already upgraded to 6.8 and have a matching topology file? (/me fears
> >>> the answer to the latter question is "yes", but I have to ask :-/)
> >>
> >> We need to understand how the reporter got this working with mainline
> >> kernels without applying any out-of-tree patches.
> >
> > Ahh, okay, thx, now I understand this better. You are most likely
> > correct. It also made me look at the initial report again where I
> > noticed "When *I manually patched support* for the 6.6 or 6.7 mainline
> > kernel it worked fine.", so yes, this likely is not a regression.
>
> It would be interesting to find out what the *manually patched support*
> involved. FWIW, to get audio working with v6.8, it's also necessary to
> backport several patches from v6.9-rc1 - I would consider the following:
>
> Fixes: f0f1021fc9cb ("ASoC: amd: acp: Drop redundant initialization of machine driver data")
> Fixes: 68ab29426d88 ("ASoC: amd: acp: Make use of existing *_CODEC_DAI macros")
> Fixes: d0ada20279db ("ASoC: amd: acp: Add missing error handling in sof-mach")
> Fixes: 222be59e5eed ("ASoC: SOF: amd: Fix memory leak in amd_sof_acp_probe()")
> Fixes: a13f0c3c0e8f ("ASoC: SOF: amd: Optimize quirk for Valve Galileo")
> Fixes: 369b997a1371 ("ASoC: SOF: core: Skip firmware test for custom loaders")
> Fixes: d9cacc1a2af2 ("ASoC: SOF: amd: Compute file paths on firmware load")
> Fixes: 33c3d8133307 ("ASoC: SOF: amd: Move signed_fw_image to struct acp_quirk_entry")
> Fixes: 094d11768f74 ("ASoC: SOF: amd: Skip IRAM/DRAM size modification for Steam Deck OLED")
>
> I think most if not all of the mandatory fixes from the list above have been
> already included in the latest v6.8 stable updates, but I haven't actually
> tested.
>
> >
> > Thx for your help and sorry for the trouble I caused!
>
> No problem at all!
>
> Regards,
> Cristian



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Kind Regards,

Daniel
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