Re: [PATCH 0/5] ASoC/SOF/PCI/Intel: add Wildcat Lake support

["Péter Ujfalusi" <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>]

On 12/05/2025 15:59, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> 
>> The audio IP in Wildcat Lake (WCL) is largely identical to the one in
>> Panther Lake, the main difference is the number of DSP cores, memory
>> and clocking.
>> It is based on the same ACE3 architecture.
>>
>> In SOF the PTL topologies can be re-used for WCL to reduce duplication
>> of code and topology files. 
> 
> Is this really true? I thought topology files are precisely the place where a specific pipeline is assigned to a specific core. If the number of cores is lower, then a PTL topology could fail when used on a WCL DSP, no?

Yes, that is true, however for generic (sdw, HDA) topologies this is not
an issue as we don't spread the modules (there is no customization per
platform).
When it comes to product topologies, they can still be named as PTL/WCL
if needed and have tailored core use.

It might be that WCL will not use audio configs common with PTL, in that
case we still can have sof-wcl-* topologies if desired.

Fwiw, in case of soundwire we are moving to a even more generic function
topology split, where all SDW device can us generic function fragments
stitched together to create a complete topology.
Those will have to be compatible with all platforms, so wide swing of
core use cannot be possible anymore.

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Péter