platforms: add separate table for older platforms

As this topic has been discussed in many pull requests and bugs,
add documentation on which platforms are supported in SOF main and
which are only supported in stable-vx.yy branches. Also add a note
explainin how sof-bin releases are made, gathering binaries for
for all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>

Author: kv2019i

platforms/index.rst

@@ -14,16 +14,8 @@ Platform and board specific support is continually added to the SOF project as d
 
    "Host Testbench", "PC command line", "N/A", "N/A", "N/A", "N/A Files are used to simulate audio interfaces"
    "Qemu", "All supported SOF HW platforms", "N/A", "N/A", "N/A", "WiP Files will be used to simulate audio interfaces"
-   "Intel Bay Trail / Merrifield", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "25MHz", "96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
-   "Intel Cherry Trail / Braswell", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "19.2MHz", "96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
-   "Intel Broadwell", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "24MHz", "320KB IRAM / 640KB DRAM", "2 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
-   "Intel Apollo Lake / Gemini Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 100 - 400MHz", "19.2MHz", "128KB LP SRAM / 512KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC"
-   "Intel Cannon Lake / Whiskey Lake / Comet Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "24MHz", "64KB LP / 3008KB HP SRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
-   "Intel Sue Creek", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 120 - 400MHz","24MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 4096KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), DMIC"
-   "Intel Ice Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 3008KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
-   "Intel Jasper Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 1024KB HP SRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
-   "Intel Tiger Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
-   "Intel Alder Lake", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Tiger Lake with IPC4", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Alder Lake with IPC4", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
    "NXP i.MX8", "Xtensa HiFi4", "1 @ 666MHz", "TBD", "64 KB TCM / 448 KB OCRAM / 8MB SDRAM", "1 x ESAI, 1 x SAI"
    "NXP i.MX8X", "Xtensa HiFi4", "1 @ 640MHz", "TBD", "64 KB TCM / 448 KB OCRAM / 8MB SDRAM", "1 x ESAI, 1 x SAI"
    "NXP i.MX8M", "Xtensa HiFi4", "1 @ 800MHz", "TBD", "64 KB TCM / 256 KB OCRAM / 8MB SDRAM", "1 x SAI, MICFIL"
@@ -38,6 +30,32 @@ When support for a new platform is being added, certain interfaces required by
 SOF infrastructure must be implemented. Refer to Platform API documentation
 for details.
 
+Some platforms have been supported by SOF in the past, but are no longer
+supported in SOF mainline ("main" branch). Below table lists such platforms,
+the last SOF major release that had support for the platform and the stable
+branch to use. For every SOF release, a stable branch is created and critical
+bugfixes can be submitted and released via these stable branches.
+
+.. csv-table:: Platforms No Longer Supported in Mainline
+   :header: "Platform", "Last Release", "Branch", "Architecture", "Cores/Clocks", "Platform Clock", "Memory", "Audio Interfaces"
+   :widths: 20, 10, 10, 20, 10, 10, 10, 20
+
+   "Intel Bay Trail / Merrifield", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "25MHz", "96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
+   "Intel Cherry Trail / Braswell", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "19.2MHz", "96KB IRAM / 192KB DRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
+   "Intel Broadwell", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi2 EP", "1 @ 50 - 400MHz", "24MHz", "320KB IRAM / 640KB DRAM", "2 x SSP (I2S, PCM)"
+   "Intel Apollo Lake / Gemini Lake", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 100 - 400MHz", "19.2MHz", "128KB LP SRAM / 512KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC"
+   "Intel Cannon Lake / Whiskey Lake / Comet Lake", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "24MHz", "64KB LP / 3008KB HP SRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Sue Creek", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 120 - 400MHz","24MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 4096KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), DMIC"
+   "Intel Ice Lake", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 3008KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Jasper Lake", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "2 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 1024KB HP SRAM", "3 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Tiger Lake with IPC3", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+   "Intel Alder Lake with IPC3", "2.2", "stable-v2.2", "Xtensa HiFi3", "4 @ 120 - 400MHz", "38.4MHz", "64KB LP SRAM / 2944KB HP SRAM", "6 x SSP (I2S, PCM), HDA, DMIC, Soundwire"
+
+The periodic sof-bin releases
+<https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/releases>
+contain latest binaries for all platforms, both from SOF main and
+latest binaries from "stable-vX.YY" branches.
+
 Minimum Platform Requirements
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