Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/7] ASoC: Intel: Kconfig: Simplify-clarify ACPI/PCI dependencies

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Nov 21 2017 - 07:05:29 EST


On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 10:23 -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 11/18/2017 10:53 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 18:01 -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > and there is no publicly available firmware for
> > > Merrifield.
> >
> > while this is not true. Intel Edison board is based on Merrifield
> > SoC
> > and I'm sure people are able to make a sound out of it.
>
> I am aware that Edison could run with a modified 4.4 kernel,

Edison can just run vanilla (with some caveats, though not related to
LPE). But okay, there was last official Yocto kernel v3.10.98 based and
v4.4 with Brillo.

> I just
> don't know where the firmware is. I don't see anything for Merrifield
> in
> /lib/firmware/intel?
> If there is a simple way of testing this I don't mind looking into
> this,
> I just don't have the pointers.

In any case the official bundle has it (sha1):

fcedef11ac49405389b0fb83d526600e0bd933a3 /lib/firmware/fw_sst_119a.bin


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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy