ALSA: hda/intel: stop probe if DMICS are detected on Skylake+ platforms

The legacy HD-Audio driver cannot handle Skylake+ platforms with
digital microphones. For those platforms, the SOF or SST drivers need
to be used.

This patch provides an automatic way of detecting the presence of
DMICs using NHTL information reported by the BIOS. A kernel kconfig
option or a kernel module parameter provide an opt-in means of
stopping the probe. The kernel would then look for an alternate driver
registered for the same PCI ID to probe.

With this capability, distros no longer have to blacklist
snd-hda-intel, but still need to make sure the SOF/SST drivers are
functional by providing the relevant firmware and topology files in
/lib/firmware/intel

The coexistence between SOF and SST drivers and their dynamic
detection is not addressed by this patch, different mechanisms need to
be used, e.g. DMI-based quirks.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig b/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
index 35d934309cb2..b5966014b5f7 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config SND_HDA_INTEL
 	tristate "HD Audio PCI"
 	depends on SND_PCI
 	select SND_HDA
+	select SND_INTEL_NHLT if ACPI
 	help
 	  Say Y here to include support for Intel "High Definition
 	  Audio" (Azalia) and its compatible devices.
@@ -22,6 +23,15 @@ config SND_HDA_INTEL
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
 	  will be called snd-hda-intel.
 
+config SND_HDA_INTEL_DETECT_DMIC
+	bool "DMIC detection and probe abort"
+	depends on SND_HDA_INTEL
+	help
+	  Say Y to detect digital microphones on SKL+ devices. DMICs
+	  cannot be handled by the HDaudio legacy driver and are
+	  currently only supported by the SOF driver.
+	  If unsure say N.
+
 config SND_HDA_TEGRA
 	tristate "NVIDIA Tegra HD Audio"
 	depends on ARCH_TEGRA