Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:57:45 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status and future of sound drivers ? Message-ID: <199703130757.IAA05813@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <3931.858239587@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 12, 97 11:52:48 pm
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> The audio is fairly reasonable (if you're talking about access to the > DSP) and the music support generally sucks. :) my personal experience is limited to audio only, and it is quite different. Out of the 4 audio (SB clones and some WSS ones) boards I have, only the oldest one (a discontinued unit) is usable with FreeBSD and in SB mode only. I am specially concerned about this since I'd like to try out/develop some audioconferencing stuff and with the current drivers I cannot even set up two machines! > Well it's not, so whomever takes over audio, I'd hope they'd also pay > some attention to the music support. :-) But the audio people might have no interest in music stuff and viceversa. Of course if some fixes come out for free, they will certainly show up. But, personally, I would not spend a single hour on fixing fm synthesis etc -- I don't have the knowledge, time, interest to work on it. > OK. Well, since the audio code is, as I said before, abandoned at > this time then I guess that leaves... You? Can Luigi Rizzo fill > Amancio Hasty's shoes? ;-) I'll see what I can do. My plans are to do a cleanup of the drivers, take away all non-freebsd code, and possibly get rid of all the "EXCLUDE_THIS" "INCLUDE_THAT" "SPECIAL_CODE_FOR_MY_BROTHERS_CARD" things, and try to make this working with WSS and SB boards. I'll try not to break existing support in the meantime, but I cannot give guarantees. I'll make the code available as soon as possible. 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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