ACK: [SRU][H/I/unstable][PATCH 0/1] Dell XPS 17 (9710) PCI/internal sound card not detected

[Tim Gardner]

Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

On 8/5/21 1:58 AM, Hui Wang wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1935850
> 
> This patch is for soundwire audio, and only ubuntu 5.11-generic
> and later kernels support soundwire audio driver, so this patch is not
> sent to groovy and focal kernels.
> 
> For oem-5.10 and oem-5.13 kernels, since this bug is not from OEM
> project, it is not urgent to merge this patch to OEM kenrels, after
> the patch is in the hirsute and impish kernels, the oem kernels will
> have this patch when syncing with generic kernels.
> 
> [Impact]
> On the Dell XPS 17 (9710) machine, the audio card is not detected when
> booting hirsute or impish kernels. So the audio doesn't work on this
> machine with ubuntu linux 21.04 or 21.10.
> 
> [Fix]
> Backport a upstream patch, this will set the correct codec config
> for this machine: rt711 for headset, dual rt1308 for spks and rt715
> for internal mic.
> 
> [Test]
> Booting up with the patched kernel, the audio card is detected, test
> internal speaker and internal mic, all work well, plug a headset,
> the headphone and external mic work well too.
> 
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> This change only applis to the Dell machines with the
> DMI_PRODUCT_SKU equals to "0A5D", if this could introduce the
> regression, it will make the audio (speaker, internal mic and headset)
> can't work anymore on the Dell machine with that PRODUCT_SKU, but this
> possibility is very low, and we tested the patch on the machine, so
> far no regression is found.
> 
> 
> Pierre-Louis Bossart (1):
>    ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: add quirk for Dell XPS 9710
> 
>   sound/soc/intel/boards/sof_sdw.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc