[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#483918: Bug#483918: Bug#483918: alsa-driver - binary only code

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:47:41PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:14:09AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:35:28PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > Wrt to alsa-source, what's the point of the package anyway? This
> > > might've been useful in Linux 2.4 days, but nowadays all drivers
> > > should be present in the stock kernel package?
> > 
> > Many people get their newer hardware working thanks to updating their
> > drivers to the latest ALSA release, while the linux-image drivers remain
> > silent. It is a package we need to keep.
> 
> There's a patch by David Woodhouse, which fixes several drivers to
> use request_firmware(). I'll look into submitting patches for
> linux-2.6 once 2.6.26 is in unstable, so that we can add support
> to firmware-nonfree for the ALSA drivers.

I'm on vacation soon and won't have time for this.

Cheers,
        Moritz