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Date:      Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:27:08 +0100
From:      des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org>
Cc:        der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Need ALSA
Message-ID:  <xzpr88zzdc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> (Peter Schultz's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:52:13 -0600")
References:  <XFMail.20030321210130.der_julian@web.de> <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org>

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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.=20

Not so.  ALSA is poorly designed (there is no hardware abstraction
layer below the driver layer) and would represent a significant
challenge to port, not to mention maintain once ported.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org

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