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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Thanjee Neefam <thanjee@fastmail.fm>
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Thus spake Thanjee Neefam <thanjee@fastmail.fm>:
> I was very happy when compiling my 5.0 kernel. For the first time "device
> midi" compiled without giving any errors. This abnormal excitement only
> led to misery when I discovered after rebooting that there still was no
> MIDI. 
> Is MIDI going to be implemented soon? Who is working on it? Can I help
> them? (I am not a very good programmer, but I can hack pre existing code,
> and I am good at testing). MIDI is the ONLY thing stopping me from
> running FreeBSD exclusively.

FYI, the non-free OSS driver supports MIDI:

	http://www.opensound.com/bsd.html