Re: [alsa-devel] Merging alsa-firmware into linux-firmware

David Henningsson wrote:

Chase Douglas (@canonical) and I plan to take what's left of alsa-firmware and try to merge it into linux-firmware, this might happen now or in the coming weeks. This will make alsa-firmware obsolete as all firmware will be provided by linux-firmware instead.

Good idea; these packages have exactly the same purpose.

Any words of ... warnings

I wonder what you're going to do about the multisound firmware files; the /lib/firmware/turtlebeach/*.bin files are just symbolic links to the actual files in /etc/sound that owners of these cards (if any such still exist) are supposed to have.

The stuff in emi_26_62 isn't used. (Er, wasn't there a regression introduced in the emi62 firmware in 2.6.27?)

Regards, Clemens