Hello Everyone, This is kind of a late follow up to these threads [1][2]. I have been busy the past few days, and was apprehensive about applying for GNU/Hurd as the application deadline was getting very close, but with the recent deadline extension I think there'll be a chance for me to talk further to the mentors.
Anyway, let's cut to the chase :). I am quite interested interested in adding sound support in Hurd, yet I am completely new to Hurd and also a Linux kernel newbie. I have a basic understanding of Linux drivers, and character devices in particular. Would it be suitable for someone with my experience to apply for such project? I've read the GNU/Hurd Hacking Guide and could get a sense of how translators work and interact with system libraries and how do those in turn interact with the kernel. So, the picture I am getting is that to add sound support we'll need a system library (which we can call 'libsound' for example) which should provide a general interface to sound hardware (analogous to ALSA in Linux), and for each sound device one has to write a translator that will map device calls (ioctls, reads/writes ...etc) to Mach device calls, so am I getting the right picture here? As for the driver, I am thinking about porting the Ensoniq 1370 driver as it's emulated under QEMU, do you think this would be a good idea? Your comments and suggestions will greatly be appreciated. Thanks, Mohammed ------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-03/msg00165.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2008-03/msg00167.html
