From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 01:07:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778F31065678 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BE08FC13 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl9 with SMTP id l9so10075498yen.13 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.185.138 with SMTP id u10mr47667918yhm.57.1325552833389; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from papi.localnet ([189.115.170.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x8sm121903618anh.17.2012.01.02.17.07.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:07:12 -0800 (PST) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:07:52 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.6.2; amd64; ; ) References: <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201201022207.52711.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Waay OT Now... FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:07:14 -0000 On Monday 02 January 2012 20:25:22 Da Rock wrote: > On 01/03/12 08:10, Mario Lobo wrote: > > On Monday 02 January 2012 18:42:44 Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: > > [troll snipper] > >=20 > >>> ..... perhaps could be a porting of the IOKit > >>> driver system from Darwin, perhaps even allowing Darwin drivers to be > >>> used on FreeBSD. All of this can go into a kernel module so that if a= ll > >>> one uses is native FreeBSD drivers made for FreeBSDs normal driver AP= I, > >>> they won't need to load this subsystem. > >>=20 > >> You see, you could have just proposed this in the first place instead = of > >> provoking a flame fest, ranting about, mostly imagined, lack of > >> documentation, GUI configuration tools and giving condescending lectur= es > >> on programmer productivity. Oh well... > >=20 > > Right on, Nikola ! > >=20 > > But David's paragraph I left in is a "real dream" for me. It is basicaly > > what's keeping me from using FBSD as my audio workstation. > >=20 > > I have an Echo Gina3D card there is simply no FBSD driver for it. But > > there are Mac drivers from Echo!. > >=20 > > I even too a shot at downloading the framework/API from Echo (windows :( > > ) but it is just way above me. > >=20 > > A colegue from Japan had written a driver for an old Echo Gina 20 bit > > which I managed to compile and load (believe it or not) but it was for > > FBSD 5. I tried to compile it on my FBSD 8 STABLE but it issues too much > > errors that (again) is beyond my capacity. > >=20 > > But I'm a stubborn one, so I'll try to keep learning from my mistakes. > > Maybe one day a new driver for FBSD will be born. >=20 > Completely off thread now... but I've had success using FBSD as an audio > workstation for a recording job. >=20 Humm ... Drivers off-topic in a Kernel Internal documentation discussion? It may be a little off-topic from the OP, but waay OT? Please, allow me to= =20 disagree. > Used Audacity, Rosegarden, hydrogen and Jack with a Yamaha usb > soundboard. Midi was an issue though, and I used a linux workstation > with Jack using net backend. That was over a year ago, and now I believe > there is a jack midi interface for FBSD. >=20 > Works well, but your hardware sounds like it does differ greatly, sorry. Yeah! I've done that too (all on FBSD). But I need it to work with a bit=20 higher end cards like the Gina3D for pro-work. =2D-=20 Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br =46reeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)