ALSA driver

[Eric Pouech]

Marco Pietrobono a écrit :
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> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Eric Pouech wrote:
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> > 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)
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>   well, this seems a good start nevertheless.
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>   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.
see my answer to Joërg about this.
 
>   BTW, It's been quite a while that I'm using ALSA 0.9, so I can try to
> port your code to it.
ok, but keep both 0.5 and 0.9 inside and also protect 0.9 code when only
the 0.5 headers will be available.

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