[alsa-devel] ESI MAYA44 PCI - ESI wants to collaborate!

[Piotrek]

2007/8/20, Adrian McMenamin <adrianmcmenamin at gmail.com>:
>
> On 20/08/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:28:34 +0200,
> > Piotrek wrote:
> > >
> > >      Referring to the lack of the official ALSA support of ESI MAYA44
> PCI
> > > (in fact, the card does not work) I would like to ask I there are any
> plans
> > > to get this card working with ALSA? I would be thankful to be able to
> run my
> > > soundcard properly under Linux. There are also a lot of people that
> would
> > > appreciate your work and are waiting for maya44 pci drivers for linux:
> > > http://www.esiforum.com/show.asp?db=esi&t=esi1&mode=3&msg=793
> > >     I wrote a letter to the UK ESI SUPPORT asking if they were going
> to
> > > write drivers for their products for Linux systems as well. There is a
> > > reply:
> > >
> > > "
> > > 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
> > > "
> > >
> > > It means that ESI will collaborate with developers who would like to
> write
> > > such driver and share the documentation.
> > >
> > > Again the question: Are there any plans to make ESI MAYA44 PCI card
> working
> > > with ALSA?
> >
> > AFAIK, no plan.  We don't have this hardware for developing.
> >
> >
>
> I have no idea what this card is like, but if they would be prepared
> to send me one, I'd be happy to take the project on. I've written one
> alsa driver - that will shortly be in the stable kernel - so can point
> to that.
>
> Of course, other developers will probably be able to do the job at a
> greater speed - but I would be happy to take it on as a pro bono
> project.
>
> I am in the UK.
>

    Thank you all for your replies. I think we should wait a while for the
response of the rest of the ALSA dev team and then we would be able to
choose the best person for this quest and decide what to do with it
together.
   However, we need to
specify what kind of information do we exactly need form ESI before we can
start talking with them. Please write your suggestions.
   When we will know what we need from ESI we can start working on the
drivers. I will be glad to be able to test your work.

-- 
Regards,
Piotr Makowski