On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> "Jared D. McNeill" wrote:
>
> > In an attempt to remove all of the GPL'd bits from my ESS Allegro-1 /
> > Maestro3 driver, I've decided to load the GPL'd DSP code onto the card
> > from an LKM. Good idea, in theory..
>
> My personal preference would have been an ioctl() to loadthe DSP code.
> The driver would then set up everything as usual, but have a flag which
> indicates if the DSP code is present.

Some things can't be configured if the DSP code isn't loaded, but yea --
open returns Device not configured if sc->dsp_loaded isn't true.

Of course, that's pretty much irrelevant now that I think about it, since
I dont' call audio_attach_mi until the LKM is loaded.

I'm going to play around with a few more ideas and see what I can come up
with.

> It might still be a good idea to have the whole driver as an LKM, but I'd
> prefer no to require the LKM option to get the sound driver running.

Maybe we should have a generic way of loading DSP code onto sound cards.
It seems to me that other drivers (emu10k???) would need something like
this as well.

Jared