Changes on VXpocket drivers

Changes on VXpocket drivers

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

I've changed the boot-behavior of VX-pocket drivers on the CVS.
In the new version, the firmwares are not in the driver source but in
the external directory to be transferred by an external program.

If you update the cvs version, please do the following:

- build vxloader utility in alsa-tools cvs.
  install it.  the firmwares will be installed in either
  /usr/share/vxloader or /usr/local/share/vxloader

- rebuild the alsa-driver modules.  install them.

- add an entry to /etc/modules.conf

	post-install snd-vxpocket vxloader

or
	post-install snd-vxp440 vxloader


The new driver, snd-vx222, will need the similar configuration.


If you encounter any problems after update, please let me know!


Takashi


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Re: [Alsa-user] Changes on VXpocket drivers

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've changed the boot-behavior of VX-pocket drivers on the CVS.
> In the new version, the firmwares are not in the driver source but in
> the external directory to be transferred by an external program.
> 
> If you update the cvs version, please do the following:
> 
> - build vxloader utility in alsa-tools cvs.
>   install it.  the firmwares will be installed in either
>   /usr/share/vxloader or /usr/local/share/vxloader
> 
> - rebuild the alsa-driver modules.  install them.
> 
> - add an entry to /etc/modules.conf
> 
> 	post-install snd-vxpocket vxloader
> 
> or
> 	post-install snd-vxp440 vxloader
> 
> 
> The new driver, snd-vx222, will need the similar configuration.
> 
> 
> If you encounter any problems after update, please let me know!

Nice, also it would be nice to create an universal firmware loader and 
extract the firmware from other drivers (cs46xx, HDSP etc...).

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs



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Re: [Alsa-user] Changes on VXpocket drivers

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:50:47 +0100 (CET),
Jaroslav wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've changed the boot-behavior of VX-pocket drivers on the CVS.
> > In the new version, the firmwares are not in the driver source but in
> > the external directory to be transferred by an external program.
> > 
> > If you update the cvs version, please do the following:
> > 
> > - build vxloader utility in alsa-tools cvs.
> >   install it.  the firmwares will be installed in either
> >   /usr/share/vxloader or /usr/local/share/vxloader
> > 
> > - rebuild the alsa-driver modules.  install them.
> > 
> > - add an entry to /etc/modules.conf
> > 
> > 	post-install snd-vxpocket vxloader
> > 
> > or
> > 	post-install snd-vxp440 vxloader
> > 
> > 
> > The new driver, snd-vx222, will need the similar configuration.
> > 
> > 
> > If you encounter any problems after update, please let me know!
> 
> Nice, also it would be nice to create an universal firmware loader and 
> extract the firmware from other drivers (cs46xx, HDSP etc...).

yes, especially a similar method is useful for HDSP.
apparently, HDSP has several firmwares depending on the chip
revision.  once when the firmware binares are out of kernel, it would
be easier to update them.  (and the size of their firmware is quite
big...)


Takashi


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