A month ago I tried to drum up support for the idea of porting the
'Advanced Linux Sound Architecture' to work with NetBSD.  Fool that I
am, I'd forgotten that GPL'd code is anathema to the NetBSD project,
and could not be included in the kernel.

I was just going through and deleting last month's email, and while
reading this message it occurred to me that perhaps a port of ALSA for
NetBSD could be created as a loadable kernel module and distributed
separately from NetBSD.

If possible, I still think this would be a worthwhile project. Just in
case anyone out there is interested, I've included my previous post,
which includes the location of the ALSA project's homepage, a brief
description, and an entreaty to those who might be interested in
working on such a project.  

-Zach Fine
czyz@u.washington.edu

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To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Keeping up with the Jones's (Advncd Linux Sound Architecture)
From: Zach Fine <czyz@u.washington.edu>

Hello all. I'm just curious if anyone out there has thought about
trying to port the 'Advanced Linux Sound Architecture' (ALSA) driver
to work with NetBSD.

It's basically an open source, GPL'd OSS driver and then some. Check
out:
	http://alsa.jcu.cz/

As a Gravis Ultrasound owner, I've thought for a while now that it'd
be neat if the 'Linux Ultrasound Project's driver
(http://home.pf.jcu.cz/~perex/ultra/) were ported to NetBSD. It looks
like the ALSA is an outgrowth of the Linux Ultrasound Project, and
would be no less useful.

If a couple of NetBSD folk want to work with me on this, I'd be
willing (happy) to contact the ALSA folks and coordinate a NetBSD port
of the driver, or contribute code if someone more experienced in such
things is interested in coordinating such a project.

Any thoughts? Suggestions? Takers?

-Zach Fine
czyz@u.washington.edu


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