On Sat, 16 May 2020 12:28:37 -0400 Mark Pearson wrote: > These are the SOF firmware and topology files needed to get the audio working > on many modern Intel CPUs (whiskeylake, cometlake etc) > With the SOF driver enabled (which it currently is in debian the kernel will > load these firmware files at boot and the topology files are used by ALSA for > configuring audio
Unfortunately SOF firmware, while it has freely licensed source code, is not (very) useful to package properly (reproducibly built from source etc) for Debian. The issue is that many devices require the firmware binaries to have an Intel signature on them, so even though we have freely licensed source code, we do not have the four freedoms since we cannot upload our own firmware binaries onto the audio devices. So the best option here is for Intel to do the building and signing and get them included in linux-firmware and then Debian pull the latest version of that. More details in the links on this page: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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