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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:58:18 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   US$100 prize for adding ESS Audiodrive support to pcm
Message-ID:  <3985A21A.7CD51B31@quack.kfu.com>

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I have for a long time said to myself that I would take the documents
available and
hack together a pcm driver for the audio chip built into my Asus P5A
machine,
and never sat down and done it. So, rather than whine to myself about
it, or whine
about nobody else doing it, I'll put my money where my mouth is.

PCI vendor id 0x125d, device id 0x1969. The first person to commit a
working driver
for it, or to submit to me a working driver for me to commit on their
behalf, will
be paid US$100. I reserve the right to judge whether the driver "is
working," but
I will at least demand that half-duplex recording and playback at all
supported
bitrates work, and that basic mixer functions work for pcm, line, aux,
cd and mic
(all as record sources or playback devices).

The source code must be made available under the FreeBSD license (or a
compatible one)
that does not infringe on any other copyrights, and submissions must be
made in good faith.
At most, one prize will be awarded. Any code committed by me will, of
course, have full
credit given to the submitter and will not be deemed a work made for
hire under copyright
law.

Accounts on a machine with this device running -current can be made
available if
necessary to other committers (sorry if this is unfair, but there's an
issue of
trust at work here).

If US$100 seems cheap, I'm sorry. But the number is 5 times the price of
an OSS license.


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