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 -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
