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@lgirdwood lgirdwood released this 24 Mar 21:40
· 9 commits to stable-v2.1 since this release

The SOF developers are pleased to announce the release of SOF v2.1.

Release notes WIP

Features

  • New Platforms TBD *
  • New Processing TBD *
  • More Performance improvements in copy functions for most components with deprecation of the frag API. Some processing code paths improved by up to 18MCPS with the same audio quality.
  • Stability improvements on multi-core support on Intel cAVS platforms which can now support running dynamic pipelines on any DSP core.
  • Zephyr RTOS is now used instead of XTOS for community release for the APL and i.MX8 platforms.
  • Initial support for Windows media player on certain TGL Windows-based devices via the IPC4 protocol.

TBC Recommended Linux recipe

  • Linux stable kernel 5.15 or newer, or SOF Linux kernel branch release/sof-2.0, commit beba60983395
    • Minimum requirement is 5.8 (kernel must support the firmware binary extended manifest header)
  • alsa-lib 1.2.5 or newer
  • alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.5 or newer

Binaries
(Binaries pending) Firmware, topology, and tool binaries are available here: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin