[Sound-open-firmware] upstream SOF binary to firmware repo

Wed Apr 25 04:04:06 CEST 2018

On 4/24/18 9:43 AM, Liam Girdwood wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 06:00 +0800, Li, Jocelyn wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Should we upstream SOF binary to upstream firmware repo, so as to make
>> firmware binary integration easier for Linux distributions? What is our
>> insight here?
>>
> 
> Binary firmwares can be upstreamed into the Linux firmware repository after SOF
> driver is upstream. This makes them easily available to the distros.

SOF driver is upstream AND we have a means to handle backwards 
compatibility with older firmware should the user enable a newer kernel.