From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Oct 10 02:51:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA04988 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA04983 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id CAA00393; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Amancio Hasty cc: Denis DeLaRoca 825-4580 (310) , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:34:50 PDT." <199610100934.CAA00355@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:06 -0700 Message-ID: <391.844941066@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > They have announce the FreeBSD port for quite sometime . Additionally, > because of the sound driver 3.5 port it should not be a big deal > to port their sound driver. I have no idea why they haven't done yet. Because Hannu would like to allocate some 64K of contiguous DMA space (if memory serves me correctly - it might be only 16K) and FreeBSD doesn't allow that once the system is up to the stage where an LKM would be loaded. We've talked to John Dyson about it and he's promised to try and work something out, though the problem is also not entirely trivial to fix, apparently. Jordan