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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Eric Pouech wrote:
after Gav and Ove clarified the license details, lets go back to the technical bits this driver is against ALSA 0.5 interface. It will provide the bare bone wave part, but not yet the mixer part nor the MIDI. Moreover, it should also support the mmap interface (this was part of the code that needed to be checked and revisited, and David should be looking into this)
well, this seems a good start nevertheless.
I've just a little doubt. From what I've understood from the alsa-devel list, it seems that the ALSA 0.5 has been declared dead almost officially. They are not supporting it anymore, more over they are actively pushing the new 0.9 interface and library. IIRC, they want to get out a rc1 next week, or like.
BTW, It's been quite a while that I'm using ALSA 0.9, so I can try to port your code to it.
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then, an ALSA final should be written. As the ALSA interface has greatly evolved between 0.5 and 0.9, the ongoing ALSA driver will need to be rewritten for ALSA 1.0 (aka final). Until Linux 2.6 is out, there will be no need for ALSA 1.0, as most of the current distros ship with either OSS or ALSA 0.5.
I'm not so sure. It seems that the next versions of SuSE and Mandrake will contain ALSA 0.9, I don't know Red Hat plans on this one, as well as others' but I can check...
bye,
/pietrobo
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