I would like toshow you the letter that I am going to send to the ESI company. I am asking you to accept this letter because I am going to send it on behalf of the ALSA development team. Any suggestions will be welcome.

Dear Sir/Madam,

In reply to the letter sent 14.07.2007:

2007/8/14, ESI UK Support uksupport@esi-audio.com:

Dear Piotr

ESI do not provide and have no plans for Linux drivers for our products However ESI are happy to provide /share information to an Individual developer within the Linux community That is able and capable to develope drivers and wishes to develope drivers

Regards UK Support ESI Auditechnik

I would like to ask you to share the information about ESI MAYA44 PCI card needed to write drivers on behalf of the ALSA development team. ALSA team needs all the information that you give your programmers to create drivers for the device. We would like to ask you for:

- a full datasheet containing IO port layout, register descriptions and commands, - ESI MAYA44 PCI firmware, - EIS MAYA44 PCI firmware source code, - permission for the firmware to be distributed with ALSA, - source code for currnet windows drivers would be very helpful but isn't essential.

There are many peope that are willing to write the driver for MAYA44 and because of the way Open-Source software and drivers are developed, in the interest of it's quality, it is important that the information about the card are accesable for all of the ALSA developers. We ask for your permision to place that information on the ALSA server for developers. Thanks to that any qualified person will have acces to it. Many other companies provided that kind of information to us this way before: http://ftp.mj2.org/pub/alsa/datasheets/

I am sure that adding this card to the list of the suported cards under the linux operating system will cause the number of satisfied ESI card users to increase. Thank you for your co-operation.