From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Oct 10 09:44:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00730 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00712 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA06487; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 17:12:57 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199610101612.RAA06487@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 17:12:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610101340.IAA04739@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Oct 10, 96 08:40:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > and you aint seen nothing yet, just wait until you see what an ATM driver > allocates for initial memory! but memory is almost free these days. Here is being sold at 100US$/16MB, so dedicating some 4-8MB at boot time to a bunch of high-performance or memory-hungry peripheral is not that bad. If you can afford 400US$ for the meteor (and how much for the ATM card), you certainly don't care about memory savings. Cheers Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================