The audio-substrate program's Phase 2 (spikes S2+S3 measured green on the
target box): the host mints its OWN instances of Valve's streaming-audio
drivers and wires by IDENTITY instead of borrowing Steam's primaries —
minted.rs the provider: one devnode per role ('Punktfunk Speakers'
from SteamStreamingSpeakers.inf, 'Punktfunk Microphone'
from SteamStreamingMicrophone.inf), marker-matched across
restarts (PunktfunkAudioRole in Device Parameters — names
are NOT identity, a minted instance is name-identical to
the primaries), provisioned on a startup worker like pad
audio, retried with a 60 s cool-down from wiring passes,
defaults restored when a fresh endpoint grabs them.
wiring_plan MintedIds tier-0: the mic takes its minted device outright
(capture side paired by the provider's id — a name search
cannot tell it from the primary), the loopback prefers the
minted sink at the head of the silent tier, an operator
override still beats everything, a narrowing minted sink
demotes below real hardware, and stale ids fall back to
the ladder unchanged. Plus AudioReadiness — the
full/audio-only/mic-only/nothing classification, logged
with every plan change (§C4's seed).
audio-probe 'mint' runs the provider synchronously; 'plan' prints one
real wiring pass + readiness — the field-triage command.
Without Steam's drivers nothing changes: provisioning degrades to absent
ids and the plan keeps the name-based ladder (primaries → cable → real
hardware) exactly as before.
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