diff --git a/include/sound/soc-acpi.h b/include/sound/soc-acpi.h
index 90d73b9bddab..0519afd7217f 100644
--- a/include/sound/soc-acpi.h
+++ b/include/sound/soc-acpi.h
@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ struct snd_soc_acpi_link_adr {
  *	@mach: the pointer of the machine driver
  *	@prefix: the prefix of the topology file name. Typically, it is the path.
  *	@tplg_files: the pointer of the array of the topology file names.
+ *	@best_effort: ignore non supported links and try to build the card in best effort
+ *		      with supported links
  */
 /* Descriptor for SST ASoC machine driver */
 struct snd_soc_acpi_mach {
@@ -224,7 +226,8 @@ struct snd_soc_acpi_mach {
 	const u32 tplg_quirk_mask;
 	int (*get_function_tplg_files)(struct snd_soc_card *card,
 				       const struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach,
-				       const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files);
+				       const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files,
+				       bool best_effort);
 };
 
 #define SND_SOC_ACPI_MAX_CODECS 3
diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.c b/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.c
index b10d4794159a..0daa7d83808b 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ enum tplg_device_id {
 #define SOF_INTEL_PLATFORM_NAME_MAX 4
 
 int sof_sdw_get_tplg_files(struct snd_soc_card *card, const struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach,
-			   const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files)
+			   const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files, bool best_effort)
 {
 	struct snd_soc_acpi_mach_params mach_params = mach->mach_params;
 	struct snd_soc_dai_link *dai_link;
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ int sof_sdw_get_tplg_files(struct snd_soc_card *card, const struct snd_soc_acpi_
 			dev_dbg(card->dev,
 				"dai_link %s is not supported by separated tplg yet\n",
 				dai_link->name);
+			if (best_effort)
+				continue;
+
 			return 0;
 		}
 		if (tplg_mask & BIT(tplg_dev))
diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.h b/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.h
index e7d0c39d0788..f358f8c52d78 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.h
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/common/sof-function-topology-lib.h
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 #define _SND_SOC_ACPI_INTEL_GET_TPLG_H
 
 int sof_sdw_get_tplg_files(struct snd_soc_card *card, const struct snd_soc_acpi_mach *mach,
-			   const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files);
+			   const char *prefix, const char ***tplg_files, bool best_effort);
 
 #endif
diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
index c1083ea4624a..c76545e70860 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c
@@ -2506,12 +2506,28 @@ int snd_sof_load_topology(struct snd_soc_component *scomp, const char *file)
 	if (!tplg_files)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	/* Try to use function topologies if possible */
 	if (!sof_pdata->disable_function_topology && !disable_function_topology &&
 	    sof_pdata->machine && sof_pdata->machine->get_function_tplg_files) {
+		/*
+		 * When the topology name contains 'dummy' word, it means that
+		 * there is no fallback option to monolithic topology in case
+		 * any of the function topologies might be missing.
+		 * In this case we should use best effort to form the card,
+		 * ignoring functionalities that we are missing a fragment for.
+		 *
+		 * Note: monolithic topologies also ignore these possibly
+		 * missing functions, so the functionality of the card would be
+		 * identical to the case if there would be a fallback monolithic
+		 * topology created for the configuration.
+		 */
+		bool no_fallback = strstr(file, "dummy");
+
 		tplg_cnt = sof_pdata->machine->get_function_tplg_files(scomp->card,
 								       sof_pdata->machine,
 								       tplg_filename_prefix,
-								       &tplg_files);
+								       &tplg_files,
+								       no_fallback);
 		if (tplg_cnt < 0) {
 			kfree(tplg_files);
 			return tplg_cnt;