HDMI multichannel audio on Linux NUC

I’m guessing here, but working on the assumption that when just using an Intel NUC as a multichannel endpoint, a NUC using core i3/5/7 processors would be overkill. So a NUC using a Celeron CPU would do. However, such a NUC is not officially supported by Roon Labs for ROCK, so it is, in effect, a MOCK device.