Re: [RFC] re-queuing usx2y-fw

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:51:51 +0200,
Martin Langer wrote:
> 
> 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?

No, I prefer the traditional one:  Send a patch :)

> 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.

> 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).


> 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.

If so, most likely you're right...


Takashi


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