Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:06:14 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Status of sound drivers Message-ID: <199701150106.BAA20333@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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I've received some info back from 4Front technologies (courtesy of their web page) in which they said the following - >Hi, > >Thanks for visiting our WWW site!. > >We are projecting a release of OSS/FreeBSD within 30 days of the official >release of FreeBSD 2.2. For about 6-9 months, OSS/FreeBSD is going to be >a commercial only sound driver for FreeBSD. After that, we'll give our >source code to the FreeBSD organization for free distribution with the >FreeBSD kernel sources. OSS/Free for FreeBSD will be similar to the Linux >kernel sound drivers (known as OSS/Free). We hope that both Linux and >FreeBSD can benefit from the OSS/Free drivers and help us make OSS a UNIX >standard. > I'd like some of the features which are not in our current sound driver, e.g. the ability to enquire of the card's capabilities (SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS) and the ability to mmap the card's DMA buffer into user space. A while back Amancio was working on a pre-release version of this driver. Is there any chance of getting this rolling again? I still have the old sources myself, and we could merge in some of the recent sound stuff that other people have contributed (the AWE32 work, Andrey Chernov's DMA restart) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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