Adrian McMenamin wrote:
My user - yes there is one - of the aica sound driver on the Dreamcast is having a problem with formware loading.
This is what he has sent me - anyone know what is wrong?
When loading snd-aica it gives: [ 55.119676] ALSA sound/sh/aica.c:641: ALSA Driver for Yamaha AICA Super Inter
then after like 15 or 20 seconds it will give: FATAL: Error inserting snd_aica (/lib/modules/2.6.24-rc4/kernel/sound/sh/snd-aica.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
There isn't anything related to this in dmesg, so I guess this error message is wrong.
This delay looks like the kernel timed out while waiting for userspace to provide the firmware.
I think the snd-aica driver should output a big error message when request_firmware() fails.
Regards, Clemens