Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:21:52 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Denis DeLaRoca 825-4580 (310) <CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? Message-ID: <199610101021.DAA00338@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:06 PDT." <391.844941066@time.cdrom.com>
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>From The Desk Of "Jordan K. Hubbard" : > > They have announce the FreeBSD port for quite sometime . Additionally, > > because of the sound driver 3.5 port it should not be a big deal > > to port their sound driver. I have no idea why they haven't done yet. > > Because Hannu would like to allocate some 64K of contiguous DMA space > (if memory serves me correctly - it might be only 16K) and FreeBSD > doesn't allow that once the system is up to the stage where an LKM > would be loaded. We've talked to John Dyson about it and he's > promised to try and work something out, though the problem is also not > entirely trivial to fix, apparently. > We can pre allocate x amount of memory for the usage of the sound buffers during boot time or anyone else . Just set aside a memory pool for this. Amancio
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