At Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:43:20 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
Let me also push for the hda-jack-retask [2] application, which is an easy-to-use GUI for creating these types of firmware files. I advertised it here a while ago [3] but it seems to have gone unnoticed.
This sounds like a good tool for making this happen. I will submit a Request For Package in Debian... but this can take time. Would you consider packaging it there? then it would easily flow into Ubuntu.
Certainly, if there is interest from the Debian side to have it.
I would also not mind if it became a part of upstream ALSA, I think it would make a nice addition to the hda-analyzer, hda-verb etc tool set.
It could be indeed helpful to merge it to alsa-tools package. Feel free to submit the patches or a git pull request.
hda-analyzer is currently in alsa.git, not in alsa-tools.git, by some reason. I guess it'd be no big problem to move it to alsa-tools if Jaroslav doesn't mind.
hda-verb can be certainly to be merged to alsa-tools. I'll add it later.
OTOH, hda-emu doesn't fit to alsa-tools. It's a no program to be provided in a pre-compiled form such as a distro package.
thanks,
Takashi