On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:18:12PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> Mark suggested:
> "We could have a wrapper which tries to load the newer firmware and uses
> the fixed driver code if that's there, otherwise tries the old driver
> with the existing firmware paths."

> Maybe that's too complicated, I had in mind some sort of opt-in Kconfig
> where you only use the new firmware/topology when the user/distro gives a
> clear hint than it's fine to use newer stuff.

To be clear I don't think this is a *good* idea, but I'm not sure
that there are any options that are good ideas.

> I also wonder how you are going to deal with all these topology files with a
> name derived from the OEM/NHLT. There's just so many of them...For upstream
> you probably want to provide ONE per platform variant, which limits you to
> the number of machine drivers supported.

Unless the way they're generated is consistent (or often
consistent) in which case you can just derive it?