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ACPICA commit 32260f5ce519e854546ce907fc0cc449e1fe51fe

Non HDAudio Link Table (NHLT) is designed to separate hardware-related
description (registers) from AudioDSP firmware-related one i.e.:
pipelines and modules that together make up the audio stream on Intel
DSPs. This task is important as same set of hardware registers can be
used with different topologies and vice versa, same topology could be
utilized with different set of hardware. As the hardware registers
description is directly tied to specific platform, intention is to have
such description part of low-level firmware e.g.: BIOS.

The initial design has been provided in early Sky Lake (SKL) days. The
audio architecture goes by the name cAVS. SKL is a representative of
cAVS 1.5. The table helps describe endpoint capabilities ever since.
While Raptor Lake (RPL) is the last of cAVS architecture - cAVS 2.5 to
be precise - its successor, the ACE architecture which begun with
Meteor Lake (MTL) inherited the design for all I2S and PDM
configurations. These two configurations are the primary targets for
NHLT table.

Due to naming conflicts with existing code, several structs are named
'nhlt2' rather than 'nhlt'. Follow up changes clean this up once
existing code has no users and is removed.

Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/pull/912

Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>