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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:07:33 +0200,
David Henningsson wrote:
> 
> Okay, I think I got most of it sorted out:
> 
> emi_26_62 / emagic
> korg1212 / korg
> maestro3 / ess
> sb16 / sb16
> wavefront / yamaha
> ymfpci / yamaha
> ...are already in linux-firmware so they won't be merged.
> 
> multisound / turtlebeach symlinks won't be merged for the time being,
> since the original firmware isn't easily accessible.
> 
> usx2yloader however seems to put files outside the /lib/firmware path
> (/usr/share/alsa/...), and I believe it has a userspace firmware loader
> triggered by an udev event.

These are basically for 2.2 / 2.4 kernels.  Don't touch them unless you
are 100% sure you do right :)


Takashi