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Date:      Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:20:47 -0700
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        joe@tao.org.uk, Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: porting uaudio
Message-ID:  <3D21463F.6010805@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <3D20EA59.6040701@kfu.com> <20020702010527.GA2701@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020702010758.GA6577@elvis.mu.org>

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Paul Saab wrote:
 > http://www.mars.sphere.ne.jp/navi/uaudio/

Wow. Well, that makes it sort of a moot point.

I don't speak much Japanese, but I've sent an e-mail to the page author 
to talk about including it in the tree.

> Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:48:41PM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
>>
>>>I'm giving some preliminary thought to attempting to port NetBSD's 
>>>uaudio to the PCM framework. I *believe* I have a good idea what the 
>>>various entry points for CHANNEL_DECLARE() (in PCM) do. I think. Maybe.
>>>
>>>What is less clear to me is the sort of hows and whys of USB device 
>>>drivers. My presumption is that the USB side of uaudio.c (from NetBSD) 
>>>should be relatively straightforward to port, and that the majority of 
>>>the work will be to shoehorn that into the PCM side. I further presume 
>>>that when I'm done, I'll have a snd_uaudio.ko module that will have 
>>>module dependencies on USB and PCM and that it will just work and stuff. :-)
>>
>>That sounds fair, and exactly what I'd assume too.
>>
>>I've not looked at the code yet, but if you're up for doing the work
>>I'll help out in whatever way I can.
>>
>>I'm not sure whether NetBSD use the same pcm framework that we do.

Not even close. I think ours looks easier, but of course I'm biased. :-)

>>I doubt that they use the same drivers, but the infrastructure might
>>be compatible.  It's probably worth dropping Cameron (cg@FreeBSD.org)
>>and seeing what his opinion is.  I know he was talking about doing
>>some usb audio work a little while ago, but was waiting for the
>>async pipes to be ported to FreeBSD.  (It's possible that there's
>>not enough support in -stable to run uaudio at this time - the USB
>>controller code is a bit behind and I'm not sure whether it has
>>async pipes yet).

-stable can't even run usio properly right now. :-( :-( :-(



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