[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ASoC: Remove mfld dead code

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 1/10/18 11:34 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:41:52PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 15:59 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>> Medfield machine was not compiling for long on mainline. Since no one
>>> complained, lets remove the dead code and associated codec.
>>
>> While this change seems okay per se, please keep in mind that Intel
>> Merrifield would be still in use (yes, we have no confirmation right now
>> about the status of the driver in vanilla kernel, I hope in the future
>> with SOF it could be much easier to get into working solution on Intel
>> Edison platform).
> 
> This is the mfld machine and codec, mrfld machine is separate and platform
> is supported by the mfld pcm driver (which also supports byt, bsw, cht and
> so on) that is not removed so wont impact tng core work.

Getting Merrifield/Edison to work with both SOF and the closed-source 
firmware is one of my objectives when I find spare cycles.