linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Fix Azulle Access 4 quirk detection

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Message-ID: <01904abc-5e7c-4006-96d9-83fc5de8bb21@roeck-us.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:37:44 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Amadeusz Sławiński <amadeuszx.slawinski@...ux.intel.com>,
	Allen Ballway <ballway@...omium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Brady Norander <bradynorander@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
	Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-sound@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Hasemeyer <markhas@...omium.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Fix Azulle Access 4 quirk
 detection

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:35:31AM +0200, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/21/24 08:15, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> > On 6/20/2024 9:27 PM, Allen Ballway wrote:
> >> I filed a bug and after sharing the requested information it looks
> >> like this device won't work on SOF without vendor support. Given this,
> >> would the original patch returning this device to using HDAudio be
> >> reasonable, or is there an preferred alternative to force this device
> >> into using HDAudio?
> >>
> > 
> > And can you share link to the issue on mailing list, so someone reading
> > this thread in the future doesn't have to guess where it is? ;)
> 
> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4981
> 
> I don't know what to do with this configuration.
> We added a quirk to force SOF to be used for ES8336 devices. It worked
> for some, but not for others. Now we have quite a few ES8336-based
> platforms that are broken with zero support from the vendor, with
> obscure I2C/GPIO/clk issues.
> Are we going to tag each one of them and say 'not supported, use HDMI only'?
> That's pushing a bit the notion of quirk...It would generate an endless
> stream of patches. The alternative is to do nothing and ask that those
> platforms revert to HDMI audio only with a kernel parameter. That latter
> alternative has my vote.
> 

Given that this apparently does not work for many ES8336 devices,
would it make more sense to disable SOF support for those by default
and _enable_ them with a kernel parameter ?

Guenter