From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 22 10:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02518 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA02389 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 10:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA16687; Fri, 22 May 1998 17:48:40 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805221548.RAA16687@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 17:48:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805221526.KAA01097@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at May 22, 98 10:25:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've been asked to get ensoniq AudioPCI based cards working with FreeBSD. > It seems that NetBSD and Linux both have support for 'em, so we're a > bit behind on that front. Is anyone playing with this under > Luigi's new driver framework? It appears to be mostly ISA based. Adding > PCI support to it would look like mostly a hack. > > Has anyone looked at the NetBSD sound subsystem? I'd say it looks kind > of promising; but I'm not too keen on yet another audio system... I don't have a precise position. On one hand, it is nice to have all audio cards under the same device driver, because it makes life easier for the user. On the other hand, differences between cards can be large so it might be more effort to merge a new card than to write a brand new driver. E.g. some russian hacker sent me a standalone driver for the ESS cards which probably has infinitely better support for those cards than my driver. Because of the differences between PCI and isa, i think that if you feel like writing a standalone driver for the Ensoniq, go for it. Whether it is simpler or harder than integrating this into the "pcm" driver, i cannot say, it all depends on how much code can you adapt (i have seen some PCI audio card data sheets that show partial emulation of ISA cards on the PCI bus, but i am not sure if they allow e.g. full duplex). cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message