On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:54:58PM -0300, Andr?s wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > "the current audio system actually supports a wider variety of audio devices." > > Sorry for the non-technically-based question but, couldn't OpenBSD > contribute its development to audio drivers to OSS so all operating > systems using it could benefit? And then OpenBSD could support just > OSS. That would make in-house work available to non-OpenBSD users. > > Just an idea.
and as far as that goes, 4Front, or anyone else for that matter, could have already ported these drivers. they've always been BSD licensed. OSS has been developed for x86 and x86_64 linux/solaris/freebsd, and only supports PCI based devices. it's also intended to be installed as kernel modules. just getting OSS running on say OpenBSD/macppc to support PCI devices would be considerable work. and then the i2s drivers we have would need to be ported to OSS. that's just one arch. as of right now, there are basically 3 regular audio developers for OpenBSD. oh, and then all the ports would need to be changed to use OSS or be modified to not use libossaudio ... while I do think a single audio API for unix would be beneficial, I also prefer the Sun API. it's sort of a tough position. believe me, there has been considerable thought put into this. > Greetings! > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
