Re: [ANN] Open Source US-X2Y firmware

[Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Martin Langer wrote:
> > I guess many users will get trouble because they haven't yet installed a new
> > version of as31 (v2.2). BTW, I haven't found any deb or rpm :(
> 
> Then it might make sense to include either the loader binary or the
> assembler into the alsa-firmware package.
> (http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ says that AS31 is provided under the
> BSD license)

I've tried out some versions of as31 and the code works with the latest
versions: 2.1, 2.2 and 2.2.1

Earlier versions including 2.0-beta3 from http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/
fail.

Including as31 into alsa-firmware is the wrong way IMO. Fixing assembler
bugs shouldn't be the goal of alsa in the future. Also, the number of
compiler tools will grow. Each card has a different chip and need different
cross-compiling tools. And I believe in three years we have no longer cards
without firmware.... perhaps five years ;-) 

It looks like a general problem, because development tools for firmware files 
can be exotic, if they exist at all. Offering two packages firmware-bin and
firmware-source sounds much better.


martin


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