[IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:40:57PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> There are two separate issues I encountered with TA (and Measure). 
>> One is the need for patches to the alsa audio to accommodate the 
>> special OLPC hardware modifications.
>
>That would need to be accepted upstream by the alsa project, and then 
>distros will automatically get the changes when they are part of a 
>release.

Or (less effective but sometimes possible if in a hurry): Convince 
distributions to accept patches, even if upstream rejects it (or 
temporarily while upstream procedures might be slow).

For Debian, the package this would probably land in would be 
alsa-firmware-loaders (if I understand it correctly), and the people to 
contact about it are reachabel on this email address:

pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org


Sometimes it might even ease upstream adoption if first working with 
distributions on shaping/polishing patches.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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