From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 6:27:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE35537B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E450643F93 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 06:27:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 737C85308; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:27:08 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Schultz Cc: der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:27:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> (Peter Schultz's message of "Sat, 22 Mar 2003 07:52:13 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Schultz 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message