Re: HDSP driver update

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

At 07 Apr 2003 15:07:13 +0200,
Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> 
> 
> > >The card won't work until the firmware is uploaded with the hdspload
> > >tool. 
> > 
> > am i right in thinking that this means that the driver will load, but
> > the card won't actually work?
> 
> The driver will load but only the hwdep interface will be created.
> The only way to interact with the card is through the defined hwdep
> ioctls. After the firmware is uploaded, all the remaining interfaces are
> created (midi, pcm, ctl), and the card is fully functional.

that's nice.  so you succeeded dieting :)

i committed the new driver and hdsploader to cvs tree right now.
i had to fix the compilation error in hdsp.c because of the last
change of control interface (inside the kernel).

the two issues still pending:

1. hdspconf is still not merged yet to cvs, because it's written in
   C++ and fltk.  i'm not sure whether we should put it into the same
   tree.  IMO, it's ok - we already have envy24control with gtk.

   so, if no one has objection, i'll try to put to alsa-tools, too.


2. the change of control interface above would make the access to a
   matrix mixer over the standard control API much easier without
   using the non-official indirect accessing.

   could you try to port the driver to use that feature?


thanks,

Takashi


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