-----Original Message----- From: Joël Krähemann [mailto:jkraehemann@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 12:21 AM To: Ughreja, Rakesh A rakesh.a.ughreja@intel.com Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de; pierre- louis.bossart@linux.intel.com; Patches Audio patches.audio@intel.com; liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com; Koul, Vinod vinod.koul@intel.com; broonie@kernel.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC v2 00/11] Enable HDA Codec support on Intel Platforms (Series2)
Hi, I am pretty sure it contains this integrated circuit: MAX98357BEWL It is a DSP. Why is a need for firmware?
It is a Intel Core i5-6360U
After looking at the Bugzilla it looks like you are looking for something else.
Recent Intel platforms contains HD Audio controllers with Integrated DSPs. Intel releases firmware which runs on this DSPs. You can connect various codecs e.g. I2S, HDA etc. Support for I2S based codecs is already available in the kernel today. However support for HDA codecs connected via DSP is not yet upstreamed. I am trying to do it.
In your case the DSP functionality is part of the Maxim HDA codec. My work is to enable the DSP functionality on the Intel SoC. So it may not help you directly.
Regards, Rakesh