Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 08:52:52 -0600 From: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@ofug.org> Cc: der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA Message-ID: <3E7C78C4.3060102@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpr88zzdc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <XFMail.20030321210130.der_julian@web.de> <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> <xzpr88zzdc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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. > > > 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 I didn't mean to imply that it would be trivial or that it would be complete after the initial port, but I still hold fast that it's easily possible. There's certainly no lack in talent around here, it's just a matter of the group's will to get it done. Pete... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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