Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 22:47:04 EET
>it is however quite dangerous for a driver to do so.
why?
>a better interface is a generic firmware loading API (or as generic as one
>can be made, anyway) with a userspace firmware loader.
agreed. its a rather tricky design however, because on a lot of
hardware, you have to defer most of the driver initialization until
the firmware load is complete. the h/w won't even talk to you "fully"
until you've done this. this means you have a loaded device driver
that is actually incapable of doing anything until a separate
user-space application is invoked.
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