Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:30:17 +0100 From: "Roger Hardiman" <roger@telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk> To: "Alexander Langer" <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux port of the Brooktree Soundchip drivers Message-ID: <002701c31bc8$73be3400$8064a8c0@VAIO> References: <20030516135815.GH1440@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi there > I've ported the Linux msp3400.c driver to FreeBSD. Gerd Knorr, the > author of the Linux driver agreed to release this driver under a BSD > Licence, so it should be possible to commit it to the tree. Great. > The Linux driver, however, always worked as expected, and instead of > trying to fix the code we currently have, which is a bit hackish already > now, I decided to just port the Linux driver. I agree, that is a good idea. > This code does all detection routines you can find in the specs of the > MSP34xx chips, so it should work out of the box. Indeed I can have stereo > sound on all my German channels here, and it also correctly detects > bilingual or mono modes while keeping the same channel (that's what the > kernel thread is for). Nice. > If you have had problems with your bktr sound in the past, or if you > just want to help me debug any problems with my port, please try the > following patch: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/bktr.patch > > I'm looking forward to any kind of reports, success or bug reports. > Once I have a well working version, I hope Roger is going to merge > in this code. Yep. I only have -current on my work laptop, so I cannot actually test it on -current. Hopefully all this works on 4.x too which is what my desktops run. Roger
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