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has caused the Debian Bug report #1143942,
regarding linux: please enable CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C on arm64 (ES8388
analog audio, RK3588)
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Package: src:linux
Version: 7.1.3-1~bpo13+1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
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Dear Maintainer,
Debian's arm64 kernel config enables the neighbouring Everest codecs but not
ES8328/ES8388:
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8316=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8326=m
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_SPI is not set
The ES8388 is the analog audio codec on a number of shipping Rockchip RK3588
boards - including the Orange Pi 5B, which is supported by the mainline device
tree Debian ships. On those boards nothing binds to the codec, so the 3.5mm
headphone jack produces no output at all: HDMI audio works, analog does not.
Everything else in the chain is already correct and present in Debian's kernel,
which is what makes this a one-line config gap rather than a porting problem:
* the devicetree node is in-tree and correct:
audio-codec@10 { compatible = "everest,es8388", "everest,es8328"; ... }
* the I2C device is created at boot:
/sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0010 name=es8388
* the I2S controller is enabled (i2s@fddf0000, status = "okay")
* snd_soc_rockchip_i2s_tdm, snd_soc_simple_card and snd_soc_simple_card_utils
are all built and loaded
The only missing piece is the codec driver, so the sound card never registers
and the platform device sits in deferred probe indefinitely:
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred
analog-sound asoc-simple-card: parse error
$ dmesg | grep analog-sound
platform analog-sound: deferred probe pending: asoc-simple-card: parse error
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [hdmi0 ]: simple-card - hdmi0
hdmi0
The driver's I2C glue already matches this hardware exactly
(sound/soc/codecs/es8328-i2c.c):
static const struct of_device_id es8328_of_match[] = {
{ .compatible = "everest,es8328", },
{ .compatible = "everest,es8388", },
{ }
};
Verification: building sound/soc/codecs/es8328.c and es8328-i2c.c unmodified
from stable v7.1.3, out-of-tree against linux-headers-7.1.3+deb13-arm64, and
loading the two modules resolves it immediately on an Orange Pi 5B:
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [hdmi0 ]: simple-card - hdmi0
hdmi0
1 [rockchipes8388 ]: simple-card - rockchip,es8388
rockchip,es8388
dmesg: input: rockchip,es8388 Headphones as .../sound/card1/input17
Headphone jack-detect registers as well, and the deferred-probe entry clears.
Prior art: Armbian enable this driver for the same SoC family. Their
rockchip-rk3588 kernel config (config/kernel/linux-rockchip-rk3588-edge.config
in armbian/build) carries:
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_SPI=m
alongside the same ES8316/ES8326 that Debian already builds. So this is not a
novel request or an unusual hardware combination - it is a codec another
distribution already ships for these boards, and which Debian's own devicetrees
describe.
Requested change - enable the I2C variant for arm64 (the SPI variant is not
needed for these boards, though Armbian enable both):
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C=m
Size cost, measured on arm64 (stripped, xz-compressed, as shipped):
snd-soc-es8328.ko.xz 16100 bytes
snd-soc-es8328-i2c.ko.xz 1612 bytes
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17712 bytes
For comparison, the two codecs already enabled for arm64 in this family:
snd-soc-es8316.ko.xz 17168 bytes
snd-soc-es8326.ko.xz 20016 bytes
So the whole request is roughly one ES8316's worth of module, and it would give
working analog audio out of the box on RK3588 hardware Debian already supports
via its devicetrees.
Reported against trixie-backports 7.1.3-1~bpo13+1; the same setting is absent
from the trixie kernel config, so it likely applies there too.
Proposed patch. This follows the existing pattern for this codec family: they
are
disabled in the common config and re-enabled per architecture where the hardware
exists. debian/config/config has
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8316 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_SPI is not set
and debian/config/arm64/config already overrides the first of those. Adding the
I2C variant beside it keeps the block alphabetical:
--- a/debian/config/arm64/config
+++ b/debian/config/arm64/config
@@ -2774,7 +2774,8 @@
CONFIG_SND_SOC_BT_SCO=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_CROS_EC_CODEC=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_DMIC=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8316=m
+CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_GTM601=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_MSM8916_WCD_ANALOG=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_MSM8916_WCD_DIGITAL=m
CONFIG_SND_SOC_ES8328 itself needs no entry - sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig has
SND_SOC_ES8328_I2C "select SND_SOC_ES8328", so the core is pulled in
automatically. arm64 only, since that is where the affected boards are; the SPI
variant is not needed.
(Line numbers are against debian/latest as of this report; the hunk is a single
added line in the alphabetised sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig block.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13 (trixie)
APT prefers trixie-backports
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb13-arm64
Hardware: Xunlong Orange Pi 5B (Rockchip RK3588S)
defcom5-rockchip
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Source: linux
Source-Version: 7.3~rc6-1~exp1
Done: Bastian Blank <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
linux, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:35:08 +0200
Source: linux
Architecture: source
Version: 7.3~rc6-1~exp1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastian Blank <[email protected]>
Closes: 1143942 1146307 1148129 1148341 1148486 1148724 1149146
Changes:
linux (7.3~rc6-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release candidate.
.
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* [arm64] drivers/misc: Enable HP_ILO as module (Closes: #1146307)
* [amd64] drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu: Enable DRM_AMD_ISP
* [amd64] drivers/media/platform/amd/isp4: Enable VIDEO_AMD_ISP4_CAPTURE as
module (Closes: #1148129)
* drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89: Enable RTW89_8852CU as module
(Closes: #1149146)
* drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89: Enable RTW89_8852AU as module
.
[ Bastian Blank ]
* Introduce modules meta package.
.
[ Reto Schneider ]
* Enable MICROCHIP_T1S_PHY as a module
.
[ Uwe Kleine-König ]
* [arm64] Enable modular support for the i2c variant of ES8328 for analog
audio on e.g. Orange Pi 5 (Closes: #1143942).
* [loong64] Enable I2C_LS2X and PWM_LOONGSON as modules for Loongson-3A6000 /
7A2000 (Closes: #1148486)
* [armhf] Add axp20x_adc as a dependency for axp20x_usb_power to
base-modules.udeb makeing USB work in the installer on sun7i-a20-bananapi
* [alpha] Reenable CONFIG_COMPACTION which was disabled since 6.13.3-1~exp1
due to a bug that was fixed in v7.0-rc1~211^2 (Closes: #1148341)
* Enable BMI323 support as a module, used (at least) to detect screen
rotation on certain 2-in-1 convertibles (Closes: #1148724)
.
[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* [riscv64] Enable COMMON_CLK_EIC7700_HSP, SENSORS_EIC7700_PVT,
RESET_EIC7700_HSP as modules
* [riscv64] Enable SENSORS_POLARFIRE_SOC_TVS as module
* [riscv64] Enable PHY_SPACEMIT_K3_COMBO_PHY as module
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