On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:21:01AM +0000, Matthew Szudzik wrote:
> > There is also the question of ALSA compatibility layer which is in my
> > understanding slowly incorporated into OSS. Is it really important to have
> > ALSA compatibility layer? Can somebody give me an example of the software
> > which  requires ALSA (please exclude Skype although there is OSS version)
> 
> Yes, an ALSA compatibility would allow us to use Linux binaries (through
> compat_linux) which require ALSA.  The most infamous example is the
> Adobe Flash 9 Plugin.

that would require kernel level ALSA emulation, just as we have kernel
level OSS emulation for linux binaries using OSS.  I have absolutely
no interest in that whatsoever.  you'd have better luck convincing
Adobe to make an OpenBSD native version of their plugin.

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