Re: [LAU] HDSP 9652+Win 7 == update flash - bye bye Linux audio & Alsa?

From: Florian Faber <faber@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 23:29:41 EET

Paul,

> that's not clear to me from the material that you quoted. i dealt with
> several RME firmware upgrades in the past, and they were trivial to
> support. you need to understand that the "firmware" is not actually
> firmware at all. its just some data to be loaded into the matrix
> mixer.

That's not correct. It's the firmware for the Xilinx FPGA. I don't see
why the card should stop working in linux, it will still use the same
firmware as before.

The hdspe series is another case, it has its firmware on a flash.

Flo

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