On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:07:31 +0200 (CEST), Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:31:16 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
Hi Takashi,
Do you plan to make hda-verb, hda-analyzer, hda-emu and/or codecgraph a part of alsa-tools/alsa-utils/pyalsa in the future?
I'm asking because I would like to know if it makes sense to package them separately for Debian.
I can put hda-emu to alsa-tools if anyone wants. This is a really small code. (But I didn't put it because I didn't want to 100 times bigger auto-tools stuff for it :)
But, hda-emu doesn't suit with alsa-tools category. It's a tool to be built with the latest (or the version to be tested) sound kernel tree. So, it's not much worth to package.
hda-analyzer is already in alsa.git. I guess it depends on Jaroslav.
What about an idea to move all hda related stuff to new git repository like alsa-hda-tools ? It will make packaging more easy with uniform name and developers will find all recent stuff at one place.
Well, hda-emu shouldn't be packaged together, so I'd like to keep it
I would just put the hda-emu to repo for reference and access. The packaging is different thing.
separately. So, what else? hda-verb and hda-analyzer? hda-verb hasn't been updated since long time ago :)
A little off topic: hda-compiler . I'm playing with an idea to have the hda-intel driver behaviour description (patches) in a firmware file. This file would contain an indexing against the hw identification and will contain instruction like:
32-bit (size and instruction) 16-bit - instruction code 16-bit - instruction size in 32-bit words
Possible instructions examples:
0x00010001 0x00000010 - attach beep device for NID 0x10 0x00020003 <nid> <verb> <param> - hda_verb initialization
Instruction blocks: - hw initialization and controls, PCMs + etc. allocation (patch callback) - function blocks - control info/get/put callbacks, unsolicited events
Variables, arrays: - instructions to set/fetch information - instructions to allocate and manage arrays
It's just a rough idea - many things must be designed and thinked out. But we need a compiler from an easy readable text syntax to generate these "firmware" files - hda-compiler.
Jaroslav
----- Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.