Re: [RFC] re-queuing usx2y-fw

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

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:01:55PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:51:51 +0200,
> Martin Langer wrote:
> > 
> > What about a second attempt of merging it into alsa-firmware? Any new 
> > strategies for this step?
> 
> No, I prefer the traditional one:  Send a patch :)

Ok. Do we have any CodingStyle for assembler files? FreeStyle?

> > 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?
> 
> For convenience, we may include both the firmware source and binary in
> the CVS repository, so that one can install even without as31.

Yep. I will try to introduce a new configure option like 
'--enable-buildfw' for it, or any similar solution.

> > 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?
> 
> Open-source version is _always_ good (if it provides the same
> functionality).

Full ACK. And it does provide the same functionality here (loading the 
main fw).


martin


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