From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 06:00:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F6D16A4E5 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:00:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC4943D5D for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:00:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 81B39381AB; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av10-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706CC37FC0; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dude.automatvapen.se (81-235-164-56-no21.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.164.56]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BB137E43; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:00:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Hans Nieser In-Reply-To: <44FCDAE7.5070603@xs4all.nl> References: <1157390268.673.57.camel@localhost> <44FCDAE7.5070603@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:00:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1157436017.667.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: snd_hda(4) -- Intel High Definition Audio driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:00:20 -0000 On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 04:03 +0200, Hans Nieser wrote: > Joel Dahl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Ariff Abdullah (ariff@) has been working on snd_hda(4) for a while now, > > which is a High Definition Audio driver and should enable basic audio > > capabilities on a lot of new machines on the market. He's been busy > > with improving the driver lately, so he asked me to send out an > > announcement and a call for testers -- yes, the driver is ready for a > > wider audience now. :-) > > > > This driver is based on Stephane E. Potvin's HDA driver, although big > > parts have been rewritten since then. The driver is still in an early > > form and many parts needs refinements, but basic audio capabilities such > > as playback/recording should work and we would like to get this into > > CURRENT soon, if everything goes according to the plan. > > Thanks for the work on this! Do I need to run -STABLE or -CURRENT to use > this driver or can I use it with RELENG_6_1? The driver has been tested on both RELENG_6 and CURRENT, so I guess it'll work on RELENG_6_1 as well. :-) -- Joel