[alsa-devel] [PATCH] cs46xx: convert to firmware loader

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon May 31 09:18:39 CEST 2010


At Sat, 29 May 2010 15:12:10 +0200,
Krzysztof Helt wrote:
> 
> From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1 at wp.pl>
> 
> The cs46xx uses unlicensed binary blob in the cs46xx_image.h file.
> Convert this file to binary firmware and use kernel firmare loader.
> 
> The DSP binary contains 3 parts which are loaded at offsets 0x0,
> 0x10000 and 0x20000. I have converted this image into 3 binary
> images cs46xx_0.fw, cs46xx_1.fw and cs46xx_2.fw.
> 
> This issue was reported as the Linux kernel bug #10750.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1 at wp.pl>
> ---
> 
> I don't know who else should be informed about this patch.

I don't think moving the stuff to firmware directory fixes anything by
itself.  Rather the firmware data has to be *removed* from the kernel
source tree.  Or drop the old dsp Kconfig together.


thanks,

Takashi


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