Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 19:11:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching sound drivers (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa/snd ad1848.c sb_dsp.c sound.c) Message-ID: <199806081711.TAA00303@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199806081432.QAA16220@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jun 8, 98 04:32:07 pm"
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> ...
> > Hmm, we will loose the ability to run popular Linux games then, as
> > they use the mmap etc functionality in the VoxWare derived sound
>
> we can adopt a soft approach -- just move LINT, GENERIC etc to the new
> driver and leave the old one in the source tree.
>
> The day will come soon when there will be no audio cards on the market
> compatible with the old driver and we'll have solved the problem :)
Hmm, I have a brand new one here based on the ESS1869 chip, it works
with the old drivers, but is totally dumb and speachless with yours :)
> > drivers and Luigi's driver hasn't got that support, nor is it in
> > his plans AFAIK ...
>
> Speaking of mmapped stuff, it is not that hard to add support for it
> (i'd say 80% of the code is already there, including the basic mmap
> calls; one only needs to play with syncronization information).
> Support for it will come when we find someone who understands what the mmap
> code should do (i suspect it resembles the microsoft audio api),
> and has code to test the thing. I am more than willing to help with the
> details, but no volunteers shows up...
I have an app that can test it, oh yes....
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Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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