Fwupd Gaining Support For Synaptics/Conexant CX Audio Firmware Updating

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-CX-Synaptics-Conexant

[tildearrow]

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

[intelfx]

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.

[Michael]

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

Synaptics bought out Conexant like a year or two back.

[starshipeleven]

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.

[starshipeleven]

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.

[intelfx]

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.

[pal666]

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

[tildearrow]

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.

[intelfx]

no, to make this point you need to add size of dependencies. self contained 20k vs of plugin 1k + fwupd ?k + glib ?k etc

No, nobody cares about size and amount of library and runtime dependencies (except maybe Slackware and Gentoo users, but that's on them for choosing a terrible distro). The only metric that matters is amount of unique SLOC needed to achieve a task.