Subject: Re: porting OSS to NetBSD
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/17/2007 19:11:56
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:05:11PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> Is anyone interested in working on this? It's beyond what I can do
> without some difficulty, but I can probably get it working eventually.
> ;)
I don't think there is much to gain from this.
> -- "Virtual" mixer device (and perhaps using this with code from the
> "Ethernet Speaker System" which I think would be especially useful in
> certain embedded applications, see google for more information)
Work on the kent-audio2 branch would be a lot nicer for this.
> -- mmap() access to DMA space on more devices, e.g. azalia
Adding such changes could be easier now...
> -- Better OSS compatability (obviously)
I don't think this is a good reason.
Joerg