Re: Merging alsa-firmware into linux-firmware

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On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 11:29 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 2010-07-20 12:51, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:38 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Chase Douglas (@canonical) and I plan to take what's left of
> >> alsa-firmware and try to merge it into linux-firmware, this might happen
> >> now or in the coming weeks. This will make alsa-firmware obsolete as all
> >> firmware will be provided by linux-firmware instead.
> >>
> >> Any words of disagreement, warnings or encouragement before we do so?
> > 
> > Encouragement, certainly...
> 
> Great!
> 
> There are a few firmwares (e g echoaudio and hdsploader) that actually
> are .c files with a big constant array in it, like this:
> 
> static u_int32_t digiface_firmware[24413] = {
> 0xffffffff, 0x66aa9955, 0x8001000c, 0xe0000000, 0x8006800c, 0xb0000000,
> 0x8004800c, 0xb4fc0100, 0x8003000c, 0x00000000, 0x8001000c, 0x90000000,
> ...etc...
> 
> Would you prefer the actual .c files in the linux-firmware git tree
> source (and the makefile that goes with it), or just the output from
> them (the binary firmware files)?

If it's just a big constant array, you might as well just give me the
binary. If there's *real* source, we'd want that too.

-- 
dwmw2

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