There's a new program, axfer, which is a reimplementation of aplay (and
arecord). The purpose of the rewrite is to have code that is easier to
maintain. For now both implementations exist, and I decided to put both
in the aplay package.
The new 89-alsa-ucm.rules udev file initializes the mixer settings for
certain hardware. It's needed for making the hardware usable at boot, in
case there's no higher level software (such as PulseAudio) managing the
mixer settings. Shipping hardware specific configuration in alsa-utils
seems wrong, but I don't know what else to do. I added it to the alsaucm
package, because it's kind of tied to the alsaucm utility (the udev
rules execute the alsaucm program, and the build system installs the
rules file only when alsaucm is enabled). Ideally the UCM configuration
in alsa-lib would define the default UCM verb for each hardware, then
the udev rules file could just enable the default verb, and there would
be no hardware specific configuration in alsa-utils. But that requires
upstream development effort.
SRC_URI was changed to a more reliable source (at least currently the
ftp server is flaky).
Signed-off-by: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
