From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langer Subject: [RFC] re-queuing usx2y-fw Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:51:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20050328155151.GA3552@tuba> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (ALSA's E-mail Delivery System) with SMTP id CF12021F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:52:27 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ml by tuba with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DFwWt-0000wi-FF for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:51:51 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hi, long time ago there was a thread about replacing tascam_loader.ihx with an open firmware: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8555003 http://www.langerland.de/audio/usx2y/usx2y-fw-0.1b.tar.bz2 All results were quite positive and I've had a lot of downloads since them on my site and I never ever got a bugreport about it :) What about a second attempt of merging it into alsa-firmware? Any new strategies for this step? The code still depends on as31 (8031/8051 crosss-assembler) which still isn't available as .rpm or .deb, at least newer versions since 2.1. Should we care about it? I use it on my US-122 since several months without problems and we have positive results from us224 and us428 owners. Even the size has only 20 percent of the size of the original tascam file. Aren't these good reasons for deleting the original closed source file? Another point is the license note in the README file for those Tascam files. Is it really true for tascam_loader.ihx? I (we?) know that tascam_loader.ihx and MidiSportLoader.ihx (for M-Audio MidiSport's) are 100% identical; there's no difference. So I believe that this file is part of the same 3rd party development kit and is not be copyrighted by Tascam? I don't know it, but Tascam should know it better... just my two cents. bye, martin ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click