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

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

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.

Since TTBOMK the affected drivers in alsa-driver are covered by the
kernel ALSA drivers we should just prune them from the alsa-driver
tarball, I suppose.

Cheers,
        Moritz