From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 16:00:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9402216A41F for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:00:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB0C43D1D for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j51G7ov9017769; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:07:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <429DDB49.2060209@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:59:05 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <429CB532.2010601@opensound.com> <20050601135747.vza4dgehcc8ks0ok@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050601135747.vza4dgehcc8ks0ok@netchild.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: 4Front Technologies , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing with 4Front X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:00:57 -0000 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > 4Front Technologies wrote: > >> As 4Front Technologies gets ready to announce OSS v4.0 later this year >> (the 10th anniversary of OSS), we'd like to offer our assistance. > > > Since my personal opinion is to sync with the official OSS API, I'm very > pleased to hear that. What kind of assistance do you offer? > >> ALSA is way too complex at the API layer but still very similar to OSS >> at the driver level (naturally since they started from OSS!). We have >> developed a ALSA<->OSS library called SALSA (for Simple ALSA) that gives >> you some level of translation between the few ALSA-only apps and OSS >> compatible drivers and it's under LGPL and we can talk about BSD >> licensing it if you find it useful. See: >> http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=296 > > > Since those apps which use ALSA most likely will be part of the ports > collection but not of the base system, I think this isn't really needed to > be adopted by us. SALSA can just be part of the ports collection too. > Actually,having an enabling API that is tied to the OS like SALSA seems to be is a very good thing to have in the base system. Why drive the ports team nuts with it breaking at the drop of a hat every time someone tweaks the kernel sources? I'm highly in favor of enabling technologies like this. It makes everyone's lives easier. Scott