Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:36:56 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: Thomas Runge <runge@rostock.zgdv.de> Cc: Orion Hodson <O.Hodson@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, Plamen Manov <b3rz@yahoo.com>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMI8338 problem Message-ID: <3A1B85A8.5ABD9D22@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011220832500.276-100000@penguin.egd.igd.fhg.de>
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Thomas Runge wrote: > > > ....the latest Linux ALSA tarball has drivers for this chipset...... > > Alsa "is released under version 2 of the GPL (GNU > general public license)" thus, it's not possible to port their drivers > to any BSD. Actually we can port GPLed drivers now. I had to check this with the Core Team recently. We can add GPL drivers and code to the source tree at /usr/src/sys/gnu Infact, you can find a single GPL sound driver file at /usr/src/sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.h It makes things harder as we have to put GPLed files in a locate away from the main drivers, and we should cope with compiling with the /sys/gnu directory is missing (if you want 100% GPL free code) But a solution is in place. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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