> > On 2025-02-05, dirk coetzee <dcoetze...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks Stuart, > > > > I have worked on and off for the past few weeks, but i have been unable to > > determine which directories in which to merge FreeBSD drivers into the CVS > > tree. > > There is already a driver for devices similar to this, azalia(4). > The diff I sent you modifies that so that it will attach to your > device. It may work as-is, it may need more work, but that's the > most sensible starting point. >
I've been helping dirk for the past weeks trying to get this to run. Looks like we may be out of luck at the moment with this one, since after further investigation on Linux this is not supported by the traditional hda modules but a newer framework called Sound Open Firmware https://www.sofproject.org/ For this specific device according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_XPS_13_(9315) it needs to load firmware provided by SOF. So I believe to support those new audio devices OpenBSD would have to port SOF, something similar to what happened with DRM drivers, which looks like a huge amount of work. The good news is that supposedly SOF is BSD licensed and platform agnostic, I think it's already ported to Zephyr for example.
