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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:38:42 +0900
From:      Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        doconnor@gsoft.com.au
Cc:        Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject:   Re: Understanding AC97
Message-ID:  <14543.26674.980546.81928B@rina>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:32:31 %2B1030 (CST)" <XFMail.000315193231.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:32:31 +1030 (CST),
  "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> said:

Daniel> On 15-Mar-00 Roger Hardiman wrote:
>> While AC97 is a standard, you still need
>> to know how to setup the chip which interfaces AC97 to your
>> ISA or PCI bus.

Daniel> So conceviably you could have acbus0: a la miibus0: ?

Not sure if the configuration will be like that in the future, but we
now drive AC97 in a unified way implemented in sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c.

It would be interesting to work out a method to determine if a chip
actually accompanies with an AC97 codec or some other one. Certain
onboard sound systems have a PCI sound chip and an ISA codec (eg
CS461x(PCI)-CS423x(ISA) and NeoMagic 256AV(PCI)-MSS(ISA)) to provide a
legacy interface as well. In most cases these ISA codecs are not compatible
with AC97, so the drivers need to handle them in a different way.

-- 
Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org>


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