Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:57:43 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@kt-is.co.kr> To: Magnus Auvinen <matricks@teepop.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI IXP development Message-ID: <20050107085743.GA16570@kt-is.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <40EBD8FB-6061-11D9-8DF8-000A9575BDF6@teepop.net> References: <40EBD8FB-6061-11D9-8DF8-000A9575BDF6@teepop.net>
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:04:40AM +0100, Magnus Auvinen wrote: > (if this is the wrong mailing list for these questions please direct me > to the right one) > > Hi, > > Questions outline: > 1) Have anyone done any development to support ATI IXP chip set? > 2) How does the GPL license affect the porting the driver from ALSA? > > I have a ASUS Pundit-R > (http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=Pundit-R&langs=01). Everything > works fine except that I have no sounds. The specifications for the > computer says that its an ADI AD1888 chip and pciconf tells me that > it's a "AD1981 AC'97 Audio Controller by ATI. This seams to be > unsupported by FreeBSD. What is needed is a driver for ATI chip called > IXP200. > > Is there anyone who is developing drivers for this setup? (1) I thought > I might port the driver (atiixp.c/h) from ALSA to FreeBSD. The chipid > numbers in those files matches those with pciconf. If no one has done > any development on this I think I will give it a try. Those files go > under GPL. How does that affect the development? (2) > Glad to see a someone who can write new audio driver. It seems that the datasheet of AD1888 is publicly available. So I guess you can release the driver under BSD license. http://www.chipcatalog.com/Analog/Datasheet/AD1888.htm Good luck. > .magnus auvinen > -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari | yongari@freebsd.org
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