From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Merging alsa-firmware into linux-firmware Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:31:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1279704688.6002.4.camel@localhost> References: <4C457C89.5040209@canonical.com> <1279623084.29277.1.camel@localhost> <4C46BE09.5050309@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [85.118.1.10]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A341B24395 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:31:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4C46BE09.5050309@canonical.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: David Henningsson Cc: "chase.douglas@canonical.com" , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 11:29 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 2010-07-20 12:51, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:38 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Chase Douglas (@canonical) and I plan to take what's left of > >> alsa-firmware and try to merge it into linux-firmware, this might happen > >> now or in the coming weeks. This will make alsa-firmware obsolete as all > >> firmware will be provided by linux-firmware instead. > >> > >> Any words of disagreement, warnings or encouragement before we do so? > > > > Encouragement, certainly... > > Great! > > There are a few firmwares (e g echoaudio and hdsploader) that actually > are .c files with a big constant array in it, like this: > > static u_int32_t digiface_firmware[24413] = { > 0xffffffff, 0x66aa9955, 0x8001000c, 0xe0000000, 0x8006800c, 0xb0000000, > 0x8004800c, 0xb4fc0100, 0x8003000c, 0x00000000, 0x8001000c, 0x90000000, > ...etc... > > Would you prefer the actual .c files in the linux-firmware git tree > source (and the makefile that goes with it), or just the output from > them (the binary firmware files)? If it's just a big constant array, you might as well just give me the binary. If there's *real* source, we'd want that too. -- dwmw2