[alsa-devel] Building Takashi's sound-2.6.git?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:33:58 +0200 (CEST),
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:04:03 -0700,
> > Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to use/develop-against/patch the ALSA drivers from:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git
> >>
> >> ... since I think they're the most up-to-date with patches?
> >>
> >> However, that's a complete kernel tree rather than the subset that's
> >> available in snapshots at:
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/alsa-driver/
> >>
> >> I figured I could just grab the above git, and also:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/alsa-driver-build.git
> >>
> >> ... to build just the ALSA driver modules. However, I can't see how to
> >> get gitcompile from there to build the sound subset of a complete kernel
> >> tree rather than e.g. something like:
> >>
> >> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=summary
> >>
> >> Can somebody give me a clue? Thanks very much.
> >
> > See alsa-driver/INSTALL, "Compilation from Linux kernel tree" section.
> > In short, run utils/setup-alsa-kernel $YOUR_SOUND_GIT_TREE_APATH
> > then gitcompile can be used.
> 
> It's not required. The alsa-driver/Makefile handles both alsa-kmirror and 
> alsa-kernel trees now.
> 
> Does anyone use the 'copy' mode of the setup-alsa-kernel script?

I do.

Takashi