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Subject: AC97 
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Hi,

It seems there are lot of feature which are not exposed by the sound 
driver for AC97, mainly surround sound , SPDIF, etc. There seems  no 
plan to port ALSA to freeBSD.
Also it appears it will be difficult to support the AC97 feature by the 
sound driver as it is.
I was wondering is there a possibility of exposing AC97 as a driver 
itself where its registers can be manipulated by ioctl calls ?

vivek