2009/7/14 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > On Tue Jul 14 02:41:02 EDT 2009, sqw...@gmail.com wrote: >> I suspect the main inhibitor there is that (as I recall) it stomps >> all over the existing soundblaster code. These days AC97 is probably >> more desirable, but it would be nice to have them coexist. > > that's going to require thinking out how ac97 can provide a strict > superset of sb. as a first step, it would make sense for ac97 to > bring it's own implementation of #A to the party. > > there are other sound models, it would be nice to design ac97's > interface in such a way that it can work with other sound models.
Particularly Intel HDA (which supercedes AC97 and is what all new machines are being shipped with now, essentially) and the various chipset codecs on top of that. Plenty of BSDLed code on them and plenty of documentation too. --dho > - erik > >
