| Message ID | 20240403091629.647267-1-cezary.rojewski@intel.com (mailing list archive) |
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| Series | ASoC: Drop soc-topology ABI v4 support | expand |
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:16:25AM +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote: > This patchset impacts UAPI. > The only known users of the soc-topology ABI v4 are Chromebook > configurations. Starting from kernel v5.4, all of them are making use of > soc-topology ABI v5. The patchset first removes obsolete code from the > Intel's skylake-driver - the driver of choice for the mentioned > Chromebooks - and then proceeds with removal of relevant soc-topology.c > and uapi bits. Do we have to worry about old Chromebooks that fell out of ChromeOS support but people are still using with a general purpose distro? I'm not sure what the user community is like there but v5.4 is from 2019 (and products would I guess have still been coming out for earlier things in 2020) which feels kind of recent.
On 2024-04-03 5:53 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:16:25AM +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote: >> This patchset impacts UAPI. > >> The only known users of the soc-topology ABI v4 are Chromebook >> configurations. Starting from kernel v5.4, all of them are making use of >> soc-topology ABI v5. The patchset first removes obsolete code from the >> Intel's skylake-driver - the driver of choice for the mentioned >> Chromebooks - and then proceeds with removal of relevant soc-topology.c >> and uapi bits. > > Do we have to worry about old Chromebooks that fell out of ChromeOS > support but people are still using with a general purpose distro? I'm > not sure what the user community is like there but v5.4 is from 2019 > (and products would I guess have still been coming out for earlier > things in 2020) which feels kind of recent. +Radoslaw Short answer: I believe we do not have to worry about these. Longer answer. Intel topology utilized with the skylake-driver has been versioned as: - 0065, paired with topology ABI v4, status: obsolete, never upstreamed - 0071, paired with topology ABI v4, status: obsolete, never upstreamed - 0072, paired with topology ABI v5, status: maintenance To my knowledge, following are Chromebook systems currently outside of the support window: Broadwell-based: N/A - no topology, catpt-driver Braswell-based: N/A - no topology, atom-driver Skylake-Y-based: v4.19, skylake-driver <anything younger has been transitioned to ABI v5> By younger I mean: any platform supported by upstream skylake-driver kernel v5.4 and onward -or- the avs-driver. So, the Skylake-Y platforms are the only subject to be discussed if at all. To my knowledge #2 the upstream version of skylake-driver on v4.19 kernel breaks when utilizing old topology, the so-called 0065 -or- 0071 which are based on soc-topology ABI v4. When it does work, it's because of internal patches for the kernel. Switching away from the native system into general purpose distro on such Chromebooks may translate to necessary patches missing, breaking audio in the process. Only the topology files for 0072 have ever been shared to the public [1]. User may also utilize the avs-driver on such machines provided they upgrade their kernel as we did share working files [2] for machine board drivers for ssm4567 and max98357a cases - onboard codecs present on Skylake-Y platforms. [1]: https://github.com/thesofproject/avs-topology-xml/tree/for-skylake-driver?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-configurations [2]: https://github.com/thesofproject/avs-topology-xml/releases/tag/v2024.02 Kind regards, Czarek
On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:16:25 +0200, Cezary Rojewski wrote: > This patchset impacts UAPI. > > The only known users of the soc-topology ABI v4 are Chromebook > configurations. Starting from kernel v5.4, all of them are making use of > soc-topology ABI v5. The patchset first removes obsolete code from the > Intel's skylake-driver - the driver of choice for the mentioned > Chromebooks - and then proceeds with removal of relevant soc-topology.c > and uapi bits. > > [...] Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next Thanks! [1/4] ASoC: Intel: Skylake: Remove soc-topology ABI v4 support commit: 251ea652050e715886b272f831cf5016150a60c8 [2/4] ASoC: topology: Remove ABI v4 support commit: c57468dc1f80a4a3bf6dd271688837d3c1f26e75 [3/4] ASoC: topology: Cleanup after ABI v4 support removal commit: 82c192540b242a8bf3c3d4140905650df9f327d4 [4/4] ASoC: topology: Remove obsolete ABI v4 structs commit: 4ba509bf3988f36b536b49b9e7022a6358f87f56 All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted. You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed. If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they should be sent as incremental updates against current git, existing patches will not be replaced. Please add any relevant lists and maintainers to the CCs when replying to this mail. Thanks, Mark