Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:07:52 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waay OT Now... FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation Message-ID: <201201022207.52711.lobo@bsd.com.br> In-Reply-To: <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-m7hUfrUPKaG6FAiv8cor6%2BWXUW-OwWA=uOAt0yDToag@mail.gmail.com> <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> <4F023CE2.3000808@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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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)
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