[alsa-devel] Merging alsa-firmware into linux-firmware

David Henningsson david.henningsson at canonical.com
Wed Jul 21 16:30:59 CEST 2010


On 2010-07-21 16:02, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 14:31 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>> The emi26/emi62 firmware already exists in linux-firmware, so I won't
>> merge them either (and that patch in the link is against linux-firmware
>> and not alsa-firmware). 
> 
> I think the *wrong* version is in linux-firmware. 

But the alsa-firmware package currently puts the firmware into the
emagic/ directory, which AFAIK is not used at all by the current kernel.

> But nobody ever
> offered a patch to fix that (only a kernel source patch).

I think the link Clemens just posted goes to such a patch.

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