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  • tildearrow
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    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
    They bought Conexant in 2017. They make sound chips, but it's low-end crap, similar to Realtek.

    Very common in HP laptops, among others.
    Wait so this means my chip is crap too? It doesn't seem to be the case except for a very faint thermal noise that I somehow can hear.

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  • pal666
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    Originally posted by intelfx View Post
    That’s exactly the point I’m making. Rewriting proprietary blobs and code drops, turning them into modularized, efficient, generic code is very characteristic of community-led open-source software projects.
    no, to make this point you need to add size of dependencies. self contained 20k vs of plugin 1k + fwupd ?k + glib ?k etc

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  • intelfx
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    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
    He turned a standalone updater application from a code drop into a fwupd plugin. It's kind of expected to reduce its size dramatically, most of the functionality is already provided by fwupd codebase.
    That’s exactly the point I’m making. Rewriting proprietary blobs and code drops, turning them into modularized, efficient, generic code is very characteristic of community-led open-source software projects.

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  • starshipeleven
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    Originally posted by intelfx View Post

    Open-source software in a nutshell.
    He turned a standalone updater application from a code drop into a fwupd plugin. It's kind of expected to reduce its size dramatically, most of the functionality is already provided by fwupd codebase.

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  • starshipeleven
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    Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
    I never knew Synaptics made sound chips? I only remember them for their touchpads?
    They bought Conexant in 2017. They make sound chips, but it's low-end crap, similar to Realtek.

    Very common in HP laptops, among others.

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  • Michael
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    Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
    I never knew Synaptics made sound chips? I only remember them for their touchpads?
    Synaptics bought out Conexant like a year or two back.

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  • intelfx
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    Originally posted by phoronix View Post
    Hughes reworked the 22k lines of standalone C++ code for CX firmware updating into a just over one thousand lines of code <...> while making it easily extensible
    Open-source software in a nutshell.

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  • tildearrow
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    I never knew Synaptics made sound chips? I only remember them for their touchpads?

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  • Fwupd Gaining Support For Synaptics/Conexant CX Audio Firmware Updating

    Phoronix: Fwupd Gaining Support For Synaptics/Conexant CX Audio Firmware Updating

    Fwupd is gaining the ability to update firmware on Synaptics/Conexant CX audio devices commonly used by laptops...

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