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Re: Device-Specific configs in debs

 

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 18.01.2014, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Florian Will:
>
>
>>  * Alsa ucm files for msm-audio in /usr/share/alsa/ucm (I'm not sure
>> if the same files can be used for all devices using the msm chipset,
>> may need to be adapted for each device?)
>
> thanks for bringing this up ...
> these files traditionally were handled on a per-chipset base (which is
> what we still do for our supported ports, but this is rather due to the
> fact that they all use different chipsets) but that was under desktop
> linux where you usually only have to get the routing for one in/out
> channel set right and are done ... in the mobile world where you have
> way more input and output channels and a much more complicated routing i
> can imagine that we will need to handle these settings on a per-device
> base instead (the same chipset might have all its channels handled
> totally differently on two different phones) since maintaining it on a
> per chipset base might just get you a config full of device specific
> exceptions anyway.

Yeah, hard to say this will be per-chipset, as usually there are
always product specific configs in the end (just remember the amount
of issues with had with omap44xx and panda/blaze).

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo


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