[Bug 557037] Re: snd-asihpi firmware could be included in linux-firmware

EliotBlennerhassett eliot at blennerhassett.gen.nz
Wed Apr 7 09:41:59 UTC 2010


Thanks David.

"there is not a good enough license information for asihpi in alsa-
firmware, so we can't move it right over. I'm sure Eliot can help sort
this out"

I expect I can.  The licence in alsa-firmware was considered 'good
enough' at the time,

For reference, here it is.
http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-firmware.git;a=blob;f=asihpi/licence.txt;h=31b0f0d7bdf12b230a9a36a044c80e8b3e0ee063;hb=HEAD

If you suggest what would be "good enough",  I'll put it to the powers
that be at AudioScience

"Eliot has stressed the importance of matching kernel driver and
firmware version, so this has to be checked as well."

While it is not always strictly true that the versions must be an exact
match, this is the ideal state to aim for. And from time to time things
change so that DSP code version < X will not work with driver code >= X.

FYI our windows "driver" installers always include the equivalent of
control application, userspace libs, kernel drivers and DSP firmware all
with the same version.  In this environment, a 'stable api' is the
interface to the userspace libs, not the interface between driver and
DSP,

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