From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 1 15:25:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5592716A46C for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351FC13C455 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:25:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 5941 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2007 15:25:48 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Dec 2007 15:25:48 -0000 Message-ID: <47517C87.3080203@chuckr.org> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:23:51 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071107 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Barkley References: <47475DF3.8030407@chuckr.org> <47477B4F.6000008@chuckr.org> <47484E4F.8000404@queue.to> <4749D405.6050800@chuckr.org> <20071126092456.ft3ir1peok80ckww@webmail.leidinger.net> <474B011A.6030705@chuckr.org> <20071128080526.qid2w9tvy800cck8@webmail.leidinger.net> <4750885D.5020402@chuckr.org> <20071130184843.V74216@freeman.4gh.net> In-Reply-To: <20071130184843.V74216@freeman.4gh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound documentation for the snd_hda (Nvidia) 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: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:25:49 -0000 Stuart Barkley wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 at 17:02 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> The comment in hdac.c is quite clear and definite that it IS going >> to need a rewrite, that's why I have been asking this. Do you know >> this to be true, or false, or is this maybe a guess? >> >> But, no matter how well-intentioned, no more guesses, they're just >> going to confuse me more. > > I'm sorry if this isn't as informative or definitive as you (or I) > would like. But a couple of minor "facts" gleaned from the CVS logs: > > The comment you refer to was in the original code committed by ariff > on 01-Oct-06. Since then there have been almost 47 further commits on > trunk (mostly by ariff). There have been ~20 commits so far in 2007 > and 3 in November 2007. It looks like ariff is working on this fairly > actively. > Wonder why I never thought to take that obvious step? Thanks, I do appreciate knowing this. It frees me, as it were, to begin what I consider to be my next step, which will be the construction of a far more detailed diagnostic tool, for the Azalia architecture. I figure it would be of huge help if/when I tackle the driver itself. ] > Stuart