From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Oct 10 03:22:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA07579 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA07569 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA00338; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610101021.DAA00338@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Denis DeLaRoca 825-4580 (310) , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:51:06 PDT." <391.844941066@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:21:52 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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