Subject: Re: Proposal: porting ALSA to NetBSD.
To: Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
From: Matthew Mondor <mmondor@gobot.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/31/2002 18:12:42
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:42:26 +1100 (EST)
Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Would there be much interest here in having an ALSA port? I believe
> that having ALSA working on BSD might get the ball rolling in getting
> more audio apps and APIs ported to BSD, and possibly even seeing BSD
> taken seriously as a platform on which to do digital audio work. I
> think this would be good.
Hmm I really enjoy NetBSD way of things according to drivers, using an
arch-independant layer, etc, I doubt that ALSA would get any better.
I personally also used /dev/audio from a userspace standpoint and found
the system effective...