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

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:29:41PM +0100, Florian Faber wrote:

> > 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.

I imagine that the new FPGA image could relocate registers etc.
 
> The hdspe series is another case, it has its firmware on a flash.

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FA

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