[alsa-devel] Getting a driver to work

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:46:18 +0100,
Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> Apologies for asking this old chestnut ... but I have upgraded my
> busybox/buildroot setup on my Dreamcast and now the AICA driver fails
> - looks pretty much like a failure to load the firmware. Information
> on the internet seems rather mixed up and out of date - some of it
> referring to 2.2 kernels etc...
> 
> What is needed to load firmware - is it udev or hotplug (or is hotplug
> obsolete), and what role do the alsa libs have in all this?

ALSA lib plays nothing as long as you use the standard
request_firmware().


Takashi