Re: [RFC] re-queuing usx2y-fw

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

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 <martin-langer@gmx.de> 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


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