sound updates for 5.2-rc1 The most significant changes at this cycle are the Sound Open Firmware support from Intel for the common DSP framework along with its support for Intel platforms. It's a door opened to a real "free" firmware (in the sense of FOSS), and other parties show interests in it. In addition to SOF, we've got a bunch of updates and fixes as usual. Some highlights are below. ALSA core: - Cleanups and fixes in ALSA timer code to cover some races spotted by syzkaller - Cleanups and fixes in ALSA sequencer code to cover some races, again unsurprisingly, spotted by syzkaller - Optimize the common page allocation helper with alloc_pages_exact() ASoC: - Add SOF core support, as well as Intel SOF platform support - Generic card driver improvements: support for MCLK/sample rate ratio and pin switches - A big set of improvements to TLV320AIC32x4 drivers - New drivers for Freescale audio mixers, several Intel machines, several Mediatek machines, Meson G12A, Spreadtrum compressed audio and DMA devices HD-audio: - A few Realtek codec fixes for reducing pop noises - Quirks for Chromebooks - Workaround for faulty connection report on AMD/Nvidia HDMI Others: - A quirk for Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB-audio - Add support for MOTU 8pre FireWire - 24bit sample format support in aloop - GUS patch format support (finally, over a decade) in native emux synth code