[alsa-devel] Getting a driver to work

[Adrian McMenamin]

On 20/08/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 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 on the internet seems rather mixed up and out of date - some of it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().
>
I gave up and reverted to the old setup. Out of date version of
buildroot, but everything works :)