Finally HDMI audio on Bay Trail and Cherry Trail devices will be officially supported in mainline kernel starting from v4.11:
See http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1702.2/04904.html for the complete details of the patches being upstreamed.
Linus,
please pull sound updates for v4.11-rc1 from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git tags/sound-4.11-rc1
The topmost commit is 7086b7b3d101e0e6fca2bf7ca2f14483fc881837
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sound updates for 4.11-rc1
here is the update of sound bits for 4.11: again at this time, no bigchanges in ALSA and ASoC core but only cosmetic changes likeconsitifaction. Meanwhile, quite a lot of developments are seen ina few driver side.
ALSA Core:- Clean up, consitification of some ops
HD-audio:- A slight behavior change of single_cmd option- Quirks for AmigaOne X1000, Samsung Ativ Book 8, Dell AiO, ALC221 HP,and fixes for Lewisburg controller- Realtek ALC299, ALC1220 codecs
Others:- USB-audio: Tascam US-16x08 DSP mixer quirk- Intel HDMI LPE audio support for Baytrail / Cherrytrail; thiscontains some updates in drm/i915 for the new platform binding
ASoC:- Lots of updates in Intel drivers, mostly for DisplayPort and HDMIon Skylake and onwards, as well as more Baytrail / Cherrytrailboards support- Channel mapping support for HDMI- Support for AllWinner A31 and A33, Everest Semiconductor ES8328,Nuvoton NAU8540.
See http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1702.2/04904.html for the complete details of the patches being upstreamed.