[alsa-devel] Merging the new firmware files for CA0132 into alsa-firmware

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Dne 28. 05. 19 v 19:47 Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 18:38:48 +0200,
> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>>
>> Dne 28. 05. 19 v 16:54 Takashi Iwai napsal(a):
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> it seems that Connor's previous attempt to put a couple of ca0132
>>> firmware files into linux-firmware tree didn't go through,
>>> unfortunately.  And now I'm thinking of taking them into alsa-firmware
>>> package as a stop-gap.  We already distribute other ca0132 firmware
>>> files, so the addition shouldn't be a big problem.
>>>
>>> Jaroslav, what do you think?
>>
>> No problem. The same situation is for the SoC SOF firmware files (drivers are
>> in kernel, firmware files are missing). Perhaps, we can release those files
>> quickly in alsa-firmware and then migrate them slowly to linux-firmware.
> 
> OK, now pushed to alsa-firmware git repo.
> 
> BTW, the situation is slightly different from SOF.  At this time, the
> problem was that it's been submitted by a third person.

Ok, so we don't have a licence for those files? Connor, have you tried to
contact Creative for a permission to use/distribute those files?

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.