Notice on Platform Coverage
WARNING: starting with v2.2, older Intel products are not supported by the main SOF development branch anymore. To avoid duplication and confusion in this sof-bin git repository, older product generations are now intentionally MISSING from sof-bin subdirectories v2.x/sof-v2.2/ and above.
For a complete release that includes all Intel products including older ones you MUST use official release tarballs found here:
https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/releases
Installing directly from the sof-bin git repo should still work but it will only install a subset.
Tarballs are now a combination of several sof-bin subdirectories generated by a new release script. They include a new manifest.txt describing that combination. For more details see Github issue #90.
Release specific notes
Some releases have version specific notes on installation. E.g. SOF v2.5 binaries require extra steps to configure the Linux kernel to use new IPC variant. Please see v2.5.x/README.md
Install process with install.sh - release tarballs
To install the release just perform a recursive copy. You can also try
the convenience ./install.sh script:
tar zxf sof-bin-2023.09.tar.gz
cd sof-bin-2023.09
sudo mv /lib/firmware/intel/sof* some_backup_location/
sudo mv /usr/local/bin/sof-* some_backup_location/ # optional
sudo ./install.sh
Install process with install.sh (sof-bin git tree)
To run install from sof-bin git checkout:
sudo mv /lib/firmware/intel/sof* some_backup_location/
sudo mv /usr/local/bin/sof-* some_backup_location/ # optional
sudo ./install.sh v1.N.x/v1.N-rcM
Install with manual steps (without install.sh)
Again you don't have to use install.sh, you can use any recursive copy of
your preference. This is all what install.sh does, example with
v1.7.x/v1.7:
cd v1.7.x
rsync -a sof*v1.7 /lib/firmware/intel/
ln -s sof-v1.7 /lib/firmware/intel/sof
ln -s sof-tplg-v1.7 /lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg
rsync tools-v1.7/* /usr/local/bin
If you don't want the symbolic links:
rsync -a sof-v1.7/ /lib/firmware/intel/sof/
rsync -a sof-tplg-v1.7/ /lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg/
rsync tools-v1.7/ /usr/local/bin/
Remember that for rsync (and some versions of cp), a trailing slash
in srcdir/ is roughly equivalent to srcdir/* + srcdir/.??* This
is how a recursive rsync is always idempotent while a recursive cp
is typically not.