Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:38:29 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Christopher Davis <loafier@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ariff@FreeBSD.org, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Audio driver template Message-ID: <20070710093829.34mqbekao4wwww4s@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <c44ca55f0707091147n48741250h588a1fcf59d1b74b@mail.gmail.com> References: <c44ca55f0707091147n48741250h588a1fcf59d1b74b@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Christopher Davis <loafier@FreeBSD.org> (from Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:47:14 -0700): > http://people.freebsd.org/~cg/template.c > > Thought I would take a look at the audio driver template as > part of my task to modernize drivers, soc2007. I would simplify > the read and write functions to avoid using the bus tag and > handle, but I'm not sure what else to do to bring it up to date. > > How else can it be improved? Putting it into the examples directory instead of having it on the people's own pages would be an improvement (the developer handbook needs to be changed to point to the examples directory then). And you should clarify what kind of improvements are valid for your SoC work. Somehow I doubt that adding shiny new features (like hps suggested) is part of the goal for your work. I think it's more like bringing existing drivers up-to-par with currently available generic driver interfaces, isn't it? I also think examples for suspend/resume stuff should be added. /sys/dev/sound/pci/atiixp.c has suspend and resume methods if you want an example. You could also review the locking, as it changed a little bit recently, I think. Apart from the atiixp driver the envy42, emu10kx and HDA drivers can also serve as examples for what is the most current in the sound subsystem in FreeBSD. Maybe you can gain some more hints from them (I think the template is not very up-to-date compared to them). The new mixer interface is not used yet in the drivers, so we don't have examples at all for them. You could ask ryanb@FreeBSD.org (or on multimedia@) about it. Ariff@FreeBSD.org (or multimedia@) can maybe help if you have some questions regarding the drivers in the tree (maybe Ariff will answer to your initial question anyway). Bye, Alexander. -- I guess the Little League is even littler than we thought. -- D. Cavett http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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