The legacy/AZX driver exposes wealth of debug information related to HDMI audio via /proc/asound/eld* entries.
This is widely adopted as a standard part of debugging HDMI audio issues. E.g. bugs like
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110932
SOF does not currently implement this interface, which will create problems with users moving from legacy driver to SOF.
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