Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-05-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Karl Schmidt wrote: The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs The kernel does contain sourceless firmware blobs. Some distributions (Debian and derivatives) remove such drivers from the kernel. A list of audio chip sets that require firmware that is not GPL friendly

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-05-14 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Hi Karl, When you said The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs did you mean to imply that this is new policy? If so, can you give a reference to where this is documented eg LKML archive reference. thanks and regards Eliot Blennerhassett www.audioscience.com Maker of

Re: [Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-05-14 Thread Rene Herman
On 14-05-08 23:55, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: When you said The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs did you mean to imply that this is new policy? If so, can you give a reference to where this is documented eg LKML archive reference. thanks and regards Eliot

[Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Schmidt
This will be important to many people. If this is not the right place to ask - please point me in a different direction. The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs so I'm hoping to find hopefully 2 different lists: A list of audio chip sets that require firmware that is not

[Alsa-user] Looking for firmware lists

2008-04-30 Thread Karl Schmidt
The linux kernel is no longer accepting closed firmware blobs so I'm hoping to find hopefully 2 different lists: A list of audio chip sets that require firmware that is not GPL friendly and A list of audio chip sets that don't require firmware because they are GPL friendly.