Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:15:59PM +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> I am familiar with the Linux kernel, although on a basic "big picture" > level, and I am also familiar with its device driver subsystem. > However the whole point of GSoC is to develop one's skills by getting > involved in the FOSS community, so I really don't mind learning a lot > of things, the question is whether it'd be feasible to learn and > acquire the skills needed for this project in the scope of GSoC? Well, it would probably be possible for a very capable developer. We don't know your skills yet, so we have no idea whether it is possible for you... It's rather ambitious, to be sure. > Wouldn't this require a glue layer in order to use other OSs drivers? > One GSoC idea was to update the the Linux glue layer for recent > kernels, so wouldn't adding sound support with the approach you > mentioned above require - for the long term - a new glue layer to be > implemented first? Indeed there is some overlapping -- updating the glue for newer drivers will also require redoing part of the sound driver related code. But we need to start somewhere... -antrik-
