CM5 and internal Speakers

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With CM4 I was using the following code in /etc/rc.local to enable speakers at startup:

# CM4
echo 523 | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/export
echo out | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/gpio523/direction
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/gpio523/value

Now, after some research I established a working solution for CM5.
You need to use dtoverlay=audremap-pi5,pins_12_13 in config.txt and have 6.12.17 kernel at least.

And after comparing PI4 and PI5 gpio mappings, I found that gpio580 is what we need! Here some pins from schematic:

HP_DET   - GPIO10
PA_EN    - GPIO11
AUD_PWMO - GPIO12
AUD_PWM1 - GPIO13

# CM5
echo 580 | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/export
echo out | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/gpio580/direction
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/gpio/gpio580/value

And now sound is working from speakers.

Here is the relevant output from /sys/kernel/debug/gpio:

 gpio-580 (GPIO11              |sysfs               ) out hi
 gpio-581 (GPIO12              )
 gpio-582 (GPIO13              )
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Audio on the RPi CM5 has been working since kernel 6.12.y was released. It’s enabled the same way as with the RPi CM4 by having this line in your config.txt dtoverlay=audremap,pins_12_13
All the images that support the RPi CM5 have working audio.

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