Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 02:05:29 +0100 (CET) From: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Creative seems to open up SB Live Message-ID: <199911010105.CAA13247@oranje.my.domain>
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This interesting article http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/29/2053221&mode=nested and this comment OK, I guess the cat is out of the bag now. Like the article says, Creative is opening the sources to the existing SBLive (Emu10K1, technically) Linux kernel driver. The current sourcebase is what would have been release as beta4 of the driver, with 4-speaker support (stereo mirroring only at present) and SPDIF output being the main changes from beta3. Also being released are beta sources for a DXR2 driver which were donated to Creative by Andrew de Quincey (thanks, Andrew!). The source for both projects will be released under the GPL. We are planning to submit kernel patches as soon as possible, after the open-source development community has had a chance to beat on the driver sources for a bit and whip them into shape. Also as the article mentioned, Creative is going to launch an open-source development support site with FAQs, CVS repositiories, CVSWeb tracking, Bugzilla, mailing lists, and all the other standard open source project website services. The site will be up and running sometime early next week - PLEASE do not overload developer.soundblaster.com with repeated checks to see if the site is up yet, OK? We'll announce loud and clear when the server goes live. So, that's where things stand as of Friday evening. All of us here at Creative are really excited about this, and we have all worked hard to get to this point. Huge numbers of people have been asking for the source since we announced the driver development project early this year. Many of those same e-mails were from people who wanted to be able to hack the driver sources themselves. Well, here's what you all have been asking for all year, and what we promised you back in February. Happy hacking! Jon Taylor Linux Driver Engineer Creative Labs jtaylor@creativelabs.com have been posted to Slashdot. BTW anyone knows what nvidia work was mentioned by this quote? "Jon Taylor, of S3 and nVidia fame" Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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