Many Linux 5.6 Sound Driver Updates Especially On The Intel / Sound Open Firmware Front
On the sound front with Linux 5.6 includes:
- The ALSA ABI is now compliant against the Year 2038 problem, which comes after various ioctls have been extended and other special-case handling.
- New sound driver support of Ingenic JZ4770, Mediatek MT6660 speaker amp, Qualcomm WCD934x and WSA881x, and Realtek RT700, RT711, RT715, RT1011, RT1015 and RT1308 chipsets.
- Finally supporting the RT5650 codec found on some Intel Broadwell systems.
- The common HDMI audio driver is now used by default for Intel Sound Open Firmware.
- A da7219_max98373 machine driver for Sound Open Firmware that appears to be used with Intel Jasper Lake hardware.
- Docking station support for the Lenovo ThinkPad T420s.
More details in this PR.
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