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. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- The Return of Audiality! --------------------------------. | Free/Open Source Audio Engine for use in Games or Studio. | | RT and off-line synth. Scripting. Sample accurate timing. | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---
