From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [RFC] re-queuing usx2y-fw Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:52:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20050328155151.GA3552@tuba> <20050329165816.GA2696@tuba> <20050331115848.GA13462@tuba> <20050401103348.GB7037@tuba> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with ESMTP id AE595239 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:52:56 +0200 (MEST) In-Reply-To: <20050401103348.GB7037@tuba> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Martin Langer Cc: Thierry Vignaud , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:33:48 +0200, Martin Langer wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:03:41PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > Martin Langer writes: > > > > > > > > > The code still depends on as31 (8031/8051 crosss-assembler) > > > > > > > which still isn't available as .rpm or .deb, at least newer > > > > > > > versions since 2.1. Should we care about it? > > > > > > > > > > > > For convenience, we may include both the firmware source and > > > > > > binary in the CVS repository, so that one can install even > > > > > > without as31. > > > > > > > > > > Yep. I will try to introduce a new configure option like > > > > > '--enable-buildfw' for it, or any similar solution. > > > > > > > > That'll be nice. > > > > > > Here it is. The new configure option for alsa-firmware is called > > > '--enable-buildfw'. If you want to build it from source you have to > > > install one of the latest versions of as31, which you can find at > > > > > > http://wiki.erazor-zone.de/doku.php?id=wiki:projects:linux:as31 > > > > why not auto enabling it if we detect the non free as31 rather than > > just providing such flag? > > > > BSD license is non free? > > Is it really necessary to build it by default? I see a lot of trouble at > the horizon due to version mismatches of as31. An as31 version check > could solve it, though. Agreed. The resultant firmware should be 100% identical even if you build by yourself. Hence I don't think it's needed so much. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/Info/Sentarus/hamr30