On Jan 9, 2008 12:45 AM, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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! > > >
for myself the only point that I miss with audio driver on openbsd is lack of audio or software mixing like you have on alsa or oss. It's a pity to have to use esound or such program to just mix different audio source. Any idee how it could be implemented with sun audio ? - benont - benoit
