That thread states the firmware was taken from the Windows driver, which isn't surprising. No license information is given, and it would be pretty unusual for a Windows driver to be licensed in a way that would allow us to distribute firmware files taken from it.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815857 Title: linux-firmware is missing ctefx-sbz.bin for snd_hda_codec_ca0132 Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I'm not 100% sure what this firmware blob is actually used for, as the card is mostly functional without it and I'm not confident the broken bits aren't due to an incomplete driver, but it requests it for CA0132-based PCIe addin cards (Sound Blaster Recon3D, Z series, X AE-5). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: linux-firmware 1.173.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Feb 13 22:49:48 2019 Dependencies: InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-12 (155 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux-firmware UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1815857/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
