From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 9:31:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314EA37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E963F43FA3 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 09:31:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 18912 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2003 17:31:48 -0000 Received: from Bc1a8.pppool.de (HELO gmx.net) (213.7.193.168) by mail.gmx.net (mp012-rz3) with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 17:31:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3E7C9E44.2000107@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:32:52 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pl, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= Cc: Peter Schultz , der_julian@web.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need ALSA References: <3E7C6A8D.7070409@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Peter Schultz 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 Amen. It belongs in to the same catheogry as /proc and v4l - Linux kind of interface invention disaster. > layer below the driver layer) and would represent a significant > challenge to port, not to mention maintain once ported. > > DES To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message