Hi All,
I've found a great way to get HDAudio vendor/device IDs when audio drivers are loaded: /proc/asound/card?/codec?
But to remake my particular (barebones) distro with with audio support, it will be repetitive and time consuming. I'm wondering what would be involved in making a user space utility that would return the HDAudio ID?
A guy on #alsa came up with some good ideas. Potentially following the lead of others directly accessing the hardware from user space http://samba.org/picturebook/ but using libpci instead. Maybe we can use "single cmd mode" so we don't need interrupts.
My original idea: It might be that a smart developer could grab a bunch of alsa/hdaudio driver source and torture it into userland.... just to get these IDs.
Should I quit now? Is it doable? Are there people here with the skills/experience to do this?
BTW, in the kernel config: #CONFIG_SOUND is not set
Thanks, Scott