From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 22 0:36:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk (orkney.cc.strath.ac.uk [130.159.248.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F67D37B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:36:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from m53-mp2-cvx1b.ren.ntl.com ([62.252.129.117] helo=cs.strath.ac.uk) by mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13yVO8-0006wL-00; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:36:21 +0000 Message-ID: <3A1B85A8.5ABD9D22@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:36:56 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.2-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Runge Cc: Orion Hodson , Plamen Manov , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMI8338 problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Runge wrote: > > > ....the latest Linux ALSA tarball has drivers for this chipset...... > > Alsa "is released under version 2 of the GPL (GNU > general public license)" thus, it's not possible to port their drivers > to any BSD. Actually we can port GPLed drivers now. I had to check this with the Core Team recently. We can add GPL drivers and code to the source tree at /usr/src/sys/gnu Infact, you can find a single GPL sound driver file at /usr/src/sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.h It makes things harder as we have to put GPLed files in a locate away from the main drivers, and we should cope with compiling with the /sys/gnu directory is missing (if you want 100% GPL free code) But a solution is in place. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message