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Date:      Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:32:52 +0100
From:      Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org>, der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need ALSA
Message-ID:  <3E7C9E44.2000107@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr88zzdc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <XFMail.20030321210130.der_julian@web.de>	<3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> <xzpr88zzdc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> writes:
> 
>>Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get
>>you MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/
>>
>>This can easily happen if we get behind a developer. 
> 
> 
> Not so.  ALSA is poorly designed (there is no hardware abstraction

Amen. It belongs in to the same catheogry as /proc and v4l - Linux
kind of interface invention disaster.

> layer below the driver layer) and would represent a significant
> challenge to port, not to mention maintain once ported.
> 
> DES



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