The most interesting feature of the is its "dual identity" in system firmware, which often leads to a tech-support mystery for Linux users:
ACPI 80860F14 is more than a cryptic hardware ID—it is the gateway to audio on a whole generation of Intel Atom SoCs. Its stubbornness on non-Windows platforms stems from incomplete ACPI BIOS implementations and the complexity of DSP-based audio routing.
If you see 80860F14 bound to sof-acpi , you are using the modern stack. Most users should stick with SOF; it resolves nearly 90% of the 80860F14 initialization errors.
The hardware ID ACPI\80860F14 refers to the Intel SD Host Controller
Therefore, 80860F14 is an Intel-specific ACPI identifier. But which component does it represent?