Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux
From: Dan Hollis (goemon_AT_anime.net)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 22:32:38 EET
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, David Olofson wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2003 23.08, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >Anyway, I believe this goes for a bunch of other cards as well, so
> > > no news here, really.
> > there are plans to try to generalize the "firmware" loading for
> > ALSA drivers to load stuff from a regular file. the wavefront
> > driver does this. not many people know that a linux driver can call
> > open/close/read/write. its pretty cool.
> Sounds like we should have a look at that driver. There's a *lot* of
> firmware data for all the EchoGals, and compiling multiple drivers
> just to avoid dragging it all in seems silly.
it is however quite dangerous for a driver to do so.
a better interface is a generic firmware loading API (or as generic as one
can be made, anyway) with a userspace firmware loader.
-Dan
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