[alsa-devel] OSS4 X-Fi driver port to ALSA

[William Pitcock]

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:41 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> William Pitcock wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:28 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >    
> >> William Pitcock wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:23 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> Will anyone start porting from OSS?  It doesn't look like so much
> >>>> amount of codes...
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> I intend to port from OSS soon. I just need to learn more about the
> >>> driver's internals.
> >>>
> >>> William
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> I now had some datasheets for the x-fi.
> >> I think the first thing we should do is create a GPL version of the
> >> header files.
> >> Shall I do that task?
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >>
> >>      
> >
> > Yes! That sounds great. I have two different X-Fi cards, so let me know
> > when you have the headers ready, and we can merge them into the OSS4
> > driver as an initial effort. That way everything we have is
> > theoretically free. I'll have to recheck what is in OSS4 though.
> >
> > William
> >    
> Why put it into OSS4?
> I would put it into the alsa-driver hg repository as a new driver.
> The header would go into the alsa-driver include dir.
> Then, start by writing a new alsa driver to just playback to the front 
> speakers with possibly a volume control.
> Once we have that in alsa-driver working, we can then add features 
> gradually.
> I don't think we will be able to use the OSS4 code, that is only really 
> useful as a reference.
> 

I concur that putting it into OSS4 is a waste of time. There are other
files marked as not being GPL. So, we need to start from scratch.

William
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