linux-kernel - Re: Correct modules for Bay Trail MAX98090 soc?

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Date:	Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:51:34 -0700
From:	Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Jie Yang <yang.jie@...el.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Correct modules for Bay Trail MAX98090 soc?

On 08/12/2016 04:49 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 06:37:11AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> On 8/12/16 4:53 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 06:31:27PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
>>>> If you remove support for all other baytrail options this driver should
>>>> still be there and selectable. We just can't support both this driver for
>>>> Chromebooks and the rest for other machines with the same distribution at
>>>> the moment.
>
>>> That sounds like a regression, what's the plan to fix it.
>
>> The simple fix is easy: disable all other codecs and the
>> BYT_MAX98090 option will be enabled. BYT_MAX98090 relies on the 'old'
>> non-dpcm driver which is used only for Chromebooks with Baytrail, which
>> never enable any other codecs, so there was never any issue before.
>
> That's not really that helpful for a distro kernel (this is for Fedora
> AIUI).
>

Yes, this is unfortunate as it means that something is going to lose sound
support in Fedora. :( It's probably going to be the Chromebook unless another
group starts screaming louder.

Thanks,
Laura