Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-12-12 Thread Matt Corallo
With the fixes for #976791 landed in linux-5.10~rc7-1~exp1 and the new release of alsa-ucm-conf in testing, this is the last remaining issue for getting audio to work on modern Dell machines (in my case a Precision 5750). It would be quite a shame for this to sit for a few more months and Debian

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-08-26 Thread Matt Corallo
This now impacts more and more devices - new generation Dell laptops that ship with linux need this (plus a new release of alsa-ucm-conf with current git) to get audio.

Bug#962134: [External] Re: Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-22 Thread Mark Pearson
On 6/4/2020 9:21 AM, Mark Pearson wrote: OK - I have asked the SOF folk to talk to you about this. I'll unicast you the email address so you have the correct contact details too. I know some discussions started with the SOF folk. Has there been any progress for this issue? Anything that is

Bug#962134: [External] Re: Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-04 Thread Mark Pearson
On 6/4/2020 4:56 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: Hi Paul - I'm afraid it does (not something of Lenovo's choosing to my knowledge...). Interesting, is it Intel doing the restrictions on Lenovo hardware? ISTR reading on one of the bugs that some

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-04 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 juin 2020 16:56 +08, Paul Wise: >> My understanding is the SOF team didn't want to use intel-firmware but >> I'm trying to find the discussion on the SOF mailing list as to why. > > I'm not sure what you mean by intel-firmware. Based on the Repology > website I guess you mean the Intel CPU

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote: > Hi Paul - I'm afraid it does (not something of Lenovo's choosing to my > knowledge...). Interesting, is it Intel doing the restrictions on Lenovo hardware? ISTR reading on one of the bugs that some hardware doesn't have the restrictions,

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
On 6/3/2020 8:31 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > > SOF is free software, but many devices require binaries that are signed > by Intel's keys, so the free license/source code much less useful and > the binaries going into linux-firmware are needed for most people. > > More details in the links on this

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 18:02:50 +0200 Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > This is free software and could go into main or am I missing something? SOF is free software, but many devices require binaries that are signed by Intel's keys, so the free license/source code much less useful and the binaries going

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Pearson
Hi, Don't know if it helps but I raised #960788 on the same topic. It has a few details on how other distro's have packaged it which might be helpful. Once this is available I'm happy to do some testing. Thanks Mark

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:25:21PM +0200, Marek Straka wrote: > Package: firmware-linux-nonfree > Version: 20190717-2 > Severity: normal > > > Add Sound Open Firmware: > https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin > https://www.sofproject.org/ This is free software and could go into main or am I

Bug#962134: add Sound Open Firmware

2020-06-03 Thread Marek Straka
Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 20190717-2 Severity: normal Add Sound Open Firmware: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin https://www.sofproject.org/ -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64