On Saturday 28 February 2009 11:47:57 Tim Jackson wrote: > I maintain alsa-firmware and the following bug regarding file conflicts > between recent versions of kernel-firmware and alsa-firmware got raised today: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487873 > > I'm not really familiar with the kernel package maintenance, nor who/what > governs what firmware goes into kernel-firmware (and indeed how that is > related to the upstream kernel). I had a cursory look at the kernel spec > in CVS but that didn't appear to have any relevant recent changes that > were obvious. > > I did a diff between the firmware in alsa-firmware and in > kernel-firmware-2.6.29-0.172.rc6.git4.fc11 and it's clear that although > there are some overlaps, much of the audio firmware in alsa-firmware isn't > in kernel-firmware. > > The current conflicting files are: > > ess/* > korg/* > sb16/* > yamaha/ds1_ctrl.fw > yamaha/ds1_dsp.fw > yamaha/ds1e_ctrl.fw > > Things that are in alsa-firmware but NOT in the above version of > kernel-firmware are: > > asihpi/* > digiface* > 3g* > ea/* > emu/* > mixart/* > multiface* > pcxhr/* > vx/* > yamaha/yss225_registers.bin > [usx2y, which does something funky so it's not in /lib/firmware] > > Either way, it looks like we need to work together on this. > > - I'm happy to just drop the conflicting files from alsa-firmware - is > that the right thing to do? I'd say yes. The versions shipped in the kernel are (supposed to be) known to work with the matching shipped kernel code. > - Are the above audio firmware files in kernel-firmware there to stay? They're put into kernel-firmware as part of the kernel's firmware "build" process, so as long as they're part of the kernel, yeah, they'll be there. > - Is there a long term goal to bring all the firmware from alsa-firmware > upstream into the kernel-firmware package? No clue... Would have to talk to some alsa folks. -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
