Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:55:59 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: 4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing with 4Front Message-ID: <20050602095559.3s0wk5uqqs4cwgog@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <429DE39D.2060501@opensound.com> References: <429CB532.2010601@opensound.com> <20050601135747.vza4dgehcc8ks0ok@netchild.homeip.net> <429DDB49.2060209@samsco.org> <429DE39D.2060501@opensound.com>
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4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com> wrote: > Scott Long wrote: >> >> 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? SALSA is a ALSA<->OSS converter. So beneath the supporting functions mentioned below, there should be not much need to change the API/ABI. >> I'm highly in favor of enabling technologies like this. It makes >> everyone's lives easier. > Anyway, the source is available for SALSA (based on ALSA 1.0.7) and it's > probably already incompatible with ALSA 1.0.9 released a couple of days > ago. 4Front doesn't have the bandwidth to keep tracking ALSA every day And this looks to me like having it in the ports collection allows more easy updates. I compare this to what we did with perl. > of the week to see what changed (we got hopelessly out of sync in just > one week when we tried developing a shim module - see the cuckoo > project at: http://www.opensound.com/cuckoo.html > > There will be some changes needed in the freebsd drivers for the SALSA > libs to work and don't worry it's nothing too difficult - mainly just > some bookeeping functions. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- A. Lincoln
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