[linux-audio-dev] Echo Darla/Gina/Layla/... on Linux

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Fri Mar 21 15:43:00 UTC 2003


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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