The Panther Lake XPS 13 (audio subsystem 1028:0e54) drives all of its
speakers through two CS35L56 amplifiers behind the CS42L43 codec. Their
DSP firmware aliases (cs35l56-b2-dsp1-misc-10280e54-spkid{1,2,3}) were
added to linux-firmware on 2026-08-18 and ship in Arch's
linux-firmware-cirrus 20260910-2, but the stable channel's Arch snapshot
is still on 20260810-2. Without them the amps run ROM firmware and the
machine is completely silent; upstream 7.2 already selects the sidecar
amplifier path for this SSID, so no kernel change is involved.
Ship the 20260910-2 payload to stable as a self-retiring shim:
- fast ring, no upstream watch (sync: false): the version is deliberately
20260810-3, above the snapshot's 20260810-2 and below Arch's real
20260910-2, so the genuine package supersedes it in the same
transaction that upgrades linux-firmware-other once the snapshot
advances. Bumping pkgver would defeat that.
- the signed Arch package is verified against the Arch packager key in
keys/pgp/ and reinstalled as-is, minus the cs42l45 SDCA tree that Arch
moved out of linux-firmware-other in 20260910: on the stable snapshot
those 190 files are still owned by -other 20260810-2 and would
conflict. The nine 10280e54 links and the 39 new SDCA files are kept.
Verified on a DX13260: cold boot loads 10280e54-spkid1 v4.5.9 on both
amps with "Calibration applied", and a 440 Hz tone measured through the
internal microphones peaks 238x over the noise floor on the stock UCM
bridge route. Delete this recipe once stable's snapshot carries
linux-firmware >= 20260910.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
