From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Aug 17 02:56:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20228 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 02:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20210; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 02:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA04178; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:26:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708170956.TAA04178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problem with my Wincast, fxtv In-Reply-To: <199708170614.XAA01038@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Aug 16, 97 11:14:15 pm" To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:26:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: mestery@winternet.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > Next release of the sound driver will not use isa_dmastatus from isa.c > rather I will duplicate the functionality in the sound driver. Am I the only person that thinks that this is unbelievably stupid? All of a sudden, the sound drivers are the only kernel subsystem that need PnP support, and now ISA DMA support too? Please spare a few seconds thought for the integrity of the system as a whole, rather than as a vehicle for your pet projects... > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[