[Bug 557037] Re: snd-asihpi firmware could be included in linux-firmware

[Chase Douglas]

After conferring with others on the kernel team, it's best if we only
include firmware in linux-firmware for drivers that are provided by some
Ubuntu package. Since there does not appear to be a package providing
this driver in any of the Lucid archives, I feel we shouldn't include
the firmware in our package. Here's my own suggestion for this case:

1. Work with the community to get the driver included in an Ubuntu package.
2. Send the firmware and license to David Woodhouse for his firmware tree, which we pull from. He may have a different set of standards, and this would be a separate path to getting the firmware into Ubuntu.

Of course, if you get step 1 done, then we can reconsider putting the
firmware directly into our linux-firmware package. I hope you can
understand that from a maintainability and liability aspect, its best
for us to focus on providing firmware for which we provide drivers out
of the box.

In the end, you are always free to continue providing the firmware and
drivers outside of the Ubuntu archives as part of medibuntu or as part
of a personal package archive.

** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix

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