[alsa-devel] SOF 1.1 Release

[Liam Girdwood]

Sound Open Firmware 1.1 has now been released and available here :-

git://git.alsa-project.org/sound-open-firmware.git

git://git.alsa-project.org/sound-open-firmware-tools.git


Significant changes since 1.0 :-

 o  Support for Playback/Capture on Intel Apollolake and Cannonlake platforms.
 o  Initial support for Intel Haswell and Broadwell platforms.
 o  Support for DMA based firmware tracing to host userspace.
 o  SIMD optimisations for SRC on xtensa ISA.
 o  Initial support for running firmware components on host.


Plans for 1.2 :-

 o  Playback/Capture on Haswell/Broadwell.
 o  SIMD optimisations for volume and mixer.
 o  Improved host based component testing.
 o  Initial runtime module support.

SOF Linux driver dependencies for ALSA/ASoC have also started to upstream.
Driver patches will continue to flow in anticipation for base SOF driver in
4.18.

Thanks

Liam