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Subject: Re: Need ALSA
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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...


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