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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:30:44 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/transcode Makefile
Message-ID:  <200710021930.45993.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200710021905.55831.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200710021724.l92HO7vE091561@repoman.freebsd.org> <op.tzlchfcz9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <200710021905.55831.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tuesday 02 October 2007 07:05 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> If the application does the right thing (e.g., use proper ioctl to
> find API level and do its stuff depending on the API level), it
> won't have a problem (at least in theory).  If it is does not
> (e.g., check API level at compile time and generate a different
> binary) AND sound(4) in -STABLE is loaded instead of OSS kernel
> modules, it MAY have a problem because it does not support some
> features in OSS v4.

Sorry, I missed your actual question.  If FreeBSD's soundcard.h is 
used to compile the application and OSS kernel modules are loaded, it 
SHOULD work because OSS v4 is supposedly backward compatible with 
what we have in -STABLE to some extent, AFAIK.  FYI, SoC2006 OSSv4 
wiki page is still available from here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/RyanBeasley/ioctlref

Jung-uk Kim



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