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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:58:17 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Brendon and Wendy <wendy.humphrey@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB Audio
Message-ID:  <1072785497.3233.1.camel@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <1072654018.37585.2.camel@bigboot.humphrey.world>
References:  <1072654018.37585.2.camel@bigboot.humphrey.world>

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On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 23:26, Brendon and Wendy wrote:
> All,
>  
> I'm interested in getting my USB web camera working under -current. I
> see that the uaudio.c (and associated files) are really old relative to
> the netbsd ones, and that record capability is missing from the FreeBSD
> equivalent files.
> 
> So, my question is would anyone object to me having a go at freshening
> the uaudio driver up? Could the audio guys please let me know if this is
> totally infeasable?

You will have problems getting usb audio working reliably in current.
Last time I looked at it, there were lots of problems because audio has
been locked up for SMP but USB hasn't. As a result, the audio backend
calls USB code without Giant being held. Things might have changed since
then, I guess.




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