Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel - Phoronix

It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8

An AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" change to the ASoC machine driver code for new CPU DAI and DAILINK creation for the I2S BT instance ended up regressing working audio support on the Steam Deck OLED du…