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GSoC 2024: Sound Open Firmware project
Sound Open Firmware
Sound Open Firmware (SOF) is an open source audio digital signal processing firmware and driver infrastructure. Is the first fully open source BSD/MIT-licensed audio firmware. The SOF firmware and drivers are platform- and architecture-agnostic.
The SOF project provides firmware source code, tools, and debug capabilities for developers to innovate and enhance production devices for all Linux based operating systems.
Sound Open Firmware Community
Website - https://www.sofproject.org/
Git - https://github.com/thesofproject/
Documentation - https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/index.html
Discord - https://discord.com/invite/Ck7jw53nU2 (see #sof channel)
Watch this if you are new to SOF - Sound Open Firmware introduction
Code Licenses - BSD/MIT
Project Proposals
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*To be updated*
Proposal 1: Add serial console driver support in SOF for i.MX8 boards
The goal is to create a driver for i.MX8 serial console, then add support inside the logging system so that logs could be read via serial console.
Code license: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
The project is considered successful if the code is accepted into SOF github tree.
Mentor: Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta@nxp.com
Proposal 2: Loopback implementation using demux component
The general idea would be to have an ALSA device where playback stream would be looped back into a capture stream. This can be useful for echo reference or for audio decoding libraries that could offload the decoding part to the DSP.
Github issue: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues/3818
Code license: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
The project is considered successful if the code is accepted into SOF github tree.
Mentor: Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta@nxp.com
