[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Skylake SST driver - blacklist the PCI device IDs for the auto probe

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:35:14 +0200,
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> Dne 23. 09. 19 v 20:24 Pierre-Louis Bossart napsal(a):
> > On 9/23/19 11:57 AM, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >> There are basically three drivers for the PCI devices for
> >> the recent Intel hardware with the build-in DSPs. The legacy HDA
> >> driver has dmic_detect module option for the auto detection
> >> of the platforms with the digital microphone. Because the SOF
> >> driver is preferred, just skip PCI probe in the Skylake SST
> >> driver when the PCI device ID clashes by default. The user
> >> can override the auto behaviour with the pci_binding
> >> module parameter.
> > 
> > Thanks Jaroslav for re-opening this mutual-exclusion issue.
> > 
> > I think we want to deal with this in two alternate ways
> > 1. static built-time exclusion based on Kconfigs
> 
> Unfortunately, that's really an issue for the universal distros.

Right.  The Kconfig of Intel audio is already too messy even for now.
We don't want more complexity just for covering some very corner
case.

Practically seen, if SOF Kconfig is enabled, we may assume that SOF is
preferred in general.  I don't think of any big need of yet another
static configuration.

> > 2. probe-time exclusion based on quirks (CPU ID + DMI)
> > 
> > For example with a SKL/KBL/APL chromebook w/ DMIC we'd want to use the 
> > SST driver and for GLK+ we want to use SOF. For any device with 
> > HDAudio+DMIC we'd want SOF, same for any device with SoundWire when it's 
> > fully supported.
> > 
> > I can't recall if I shared the patches I worked on a couple of months 
> > ago, but they are still at https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/pull/927
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to this. It does not address the legacy HDA, but it's a
> step forward.

The legacy HD-audio stuff is resolved with the recent DMIC detection
on 5.4, I suppose?

> > the first part essentially does the same thing as this patch, the second 
> > relies on quirks. I've been busy with other things but indeed it's high 
> > time we closed this for distributions.
> 
> Yes, and I have to say, it's too late for the hardware vendors right now. I
> will probably apply my patch to our distribution (I don't care too much about
> chromebooks - the user can change the module/driver behaviour manually) until
> we have a better code.
> 
> >> Boot log from Lenovo Carbon X1 (7th gen) with the default settings:
> >>
> >>    snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: Digital mics found on Skylake+ platform, aborting probe
> >>    snd_soc_skl 0000:00:1f.3: SOF driver is preferred on this platform, aborting probe
> >>    sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: warning: No matching ASoC machine driver found
> >>    sof-audio-pci 0000:00:1f.3: DSP detected with PCI class/subclass/prog-if 0x040380
> >>    ....
> >>
> >> Perhaps, it may be more wise to create one shared module and all
> >> three drivers should call the driver detection routine(s) from one
> >> place.
> > 
> > We did look into this and it's a bit complicated in terms of plumbing.
> 
> Could you elaborate more here? I believe that for the runtime environment
> where all drivers are compiled in the kernel, it might make sense to have this
> code at one place and installed only once for all three (or may be four in the
> soundwire future) drivers.
> 
> We should have one straight way which driver/module is used. The separate
> conditions in the mentioned drivers will cause problems. Also, it will
> simplify things for the end user. One module parameter (in the driver selector
> library) is better than three or four to make things working (if the DMI /
> whatever table is not preset correctly for the new hardware).

Well, one question is where to put this option.  I thought of HD-audio
core in the past, but it's not always the common place any longer.
We may introduce yet another common module just for an option, but it
sounds little appealing to me in comparison with the needed
resources.

Basically the deployment of SST is only for the already existing
devices, and all newer should go for SOF.  And, the pattern Pierre
mentioned should cover almost all use cases.  This made me believing
that a simple switch is no mandatory request.

In anyway, Jaroslav's patch looks like a good starting point.  We can
build up a few more exceptions (SKl/KBl/APL Chromebooks with DMIC) on
top of it, then we've done mostly, right?


thanks,

Takashi