WARNING: starting with v2.2, older Intel products are not supported by the main SOF development branch anymore. To avoid duplication and confusion in this sof-bin git repository, older product generations are now intentionally MISSING from sof-bin subdirectories v2.x/sof-v2.2/ and above.

For a complete release that includes all Intel products including older ones you MUST use official release tarballs found here:

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/releases

Installing directly from the sof-bin git repo should still work but it will only install a subset.

Tarballs are now a combination of several sof-bin subdirectories generated by a new release script. They include a new manifest.txt describing that combination. For more details see Github issue #90.

To install the release just perform a recursive copy. You can also try the convenience ./install.sh script:

sudo mv /lib/firmware/intel/sof* some_backup_location/
sudo mv /usr/local/bin/sof-*     some_backup_location/ # optional
sudo ./install.sh v1.N.x/v1.N-rcM

Again you don't have to use install.sh, you can use any recursive copy of your preference. This is all what install.sh does, example with v1.7.x/v1.7:

cd v1.7.x
rsync -a sof*v1.7   /lib/firmware/intel/
ln -s sof-v1.7      /lib/firmware/intel/sof
ln -s sof-tplg-v1.7 /lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg
rsync tools-v1.7/*  /usr/local/bin

If you don't want the symbolic links:

rsync -a sof-v1.7/       /lib/firmware/intel/sof/
rsync -a sof-tplg-v1.7/  /lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg/
rsync tools-v1.7/        /usr/local/bin/

Remember that for rsync (and some versions of cp), a trailing slash in srcdir/ is roughly equivalent to srcdir/* + srcdir/.??* This is how a recursive rsync is always idempotent while a recursive cp is typically not.