Okay, I think I got most of it sorted out:
emi_26_62 / emagic korg1212 / korg maestro3 / ess sb16 / sb16 wavefront / yamaha ymfpci / yamaha ...are already in linux-firmware so they won't be merged.
multisound / turtlebeach symlinks won't be merged for the time being, since the original firmware isn't easily accessible.
usx2yloader however seems to put files outside the /lib/firmware path (/usr/share/alsa/...), and I believe it has a userspace firmware loader triggered by an udev event. I'll put it into /lib/firmware/tascam or something like that, but we need to update the loader as well to use the new path.
The rest should merge without trouble.
On 2010-07-20 12:38, David Henningsson wrote:
Hi,
Chase Douglas (@canonical) and I plan to take what's left of alsa-firmware and try to merge it into linux-firmware, this might happen now or in the coming weeks. This will make alsa-firmware obsolete as all firmware will be provided by linux-firmware instead.
Any words of disagreement, warnings or encouragement before we do so?
-- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic