The legacy HD-Audio driver cannot handle Skylake+ platforms with
digital microphones. For those platforms, the SOF or SST drivers need
to be used.
This patch provides an automatic way of detecting the presence of
DMICs using NHTL information reported by the BIOS. A kernel kconfig
option or a kernel module parameter provide an opt-in means of
stopping the probe. The kernel would then look for an alternate driver
registered for the same PCI ID to probe.
With this capability, distros no longer have to blacklist
snd-hda-intel, but still need to make sure the SOF/SST drivers are
functional by providing the relevant firmware and topology files in
/lib/firmware/intel
The coexistence between SOF and SST drivers and their dynamic
detection is not addressed by this patch, different mechanisms need to
be used, e.g. DMI-based quirks.
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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