Re: [ANN] Open Source US-X2Y firmware

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:15:39 +0200,
Martin Langer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:51:48PM +0200, Martin Langer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:39:38AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Thu, 27 May 2004 21:26:22 +0200,
> > > Martin Langer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > if someone is interested in a free (I mean GPL) firmware for the Tascam
> > > > US-X2Y devices I can offer an open source replacement for the second stage 
> > > > loader alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_loader.ihx. All three US-X2Y devices
> > > > need this file. But I have only tried it out with an US-122 where it works.
> > > > 
> > > shall i include this into alsa-firmware?
> > 
> > In which way should it be included?
> > - replacing the vendor fw file
> > - as alternate fw, maybe with a configure option like 'prefer-free-fw' or so
> > 
> > Another point is that MidiSportLoader.ihx is 100% identical with
> > tascam_loader.ihx. Maybe midisport devices work with this loader too. But I
> > have no possibility to test it. Then it would be better to remove the ezusb
> > stuff from usx2yloader and create a new chip specific tree for all ez-usb
> > devices. Or not? 
> > 
> > > or should wait for a while until more debugging?
> > 
> > I guess some us224/midisport test would be nice. But on the other hand the
> > loader core is built into the chip and my code is not much more than a few
> > init lines.
> 
> Ok, now we know that us122, us224 and us428 are working.
> So I vote for replacing tascam_loader.ihx :)

Great.  Could you send a patch?


Takashi


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