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[FEATURE] Add ABI versioning to IPC4 interface #9080

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@kv2019i

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
SOF has established ABI process for IPC3 extensions -> https://thesofproject.github.io/latest/contribute/process/abiprocess.html

We do not have same for IPC4 yet and no guidelines how to push IPC4 changes through the process. With release of SOF2.7, we now have first shipping product that is using SOF IPC4 interface (Intel Meteor Lake), so there is now also the need to track ABI extensions. Notably, FW currently sets:

#define SOF_ABI_MAJOR 3
#define SOF_ABI_MINOR 30

... and there's no way to describe IPC4 version.

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Something like IPC3.

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Additional context
Triggered by review of #9032

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