[alsa-devel] Will there ever be emu20k1/x-fi support in Alsa?

[The Source]

About multi playback: look at the latest codes from their mercurial repo 
- vmix with 4 PCMs was restored there.

Takashi Iwai ?????:
> At Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:46:22 -0500,
> Ted T. Logian wrote:
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>> Yes, but it is better than nothing, and perhaps some of that is a
>> limitation of oss4:).
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> Just looking at their code, and I can conclude it's a half-baked
> driver, indeed.  Fixed rate, no full duplex, no multi playback, no
> multi channel, etc, etc.
>
> OTOH, it's pretty easy to port right now because of its shortness.
> More comprehensive be more longer codes.
>
> OK, if the code is that long, I'll try to port as experimental.
> It's always good to have a reference at the beginning.
> Maybe it'll take one or two days...  Will inform you when it's ready.
>
> Note that I have neither XFi hardware nor datasheet, so someone brave
> has to test it :)
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> Takashi
>
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>> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:41 +0400, The Source wrote:
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>>> That driver isn't too good unfortunately. No surround support, sample 
>>> rate stuck at 96000Hz and is read-only (this makes apps that require 
>>> explicit sample rate to fail to use sound), no pulse-audio compatibility 
>>> (pulse-audio fails to load oss modules).
>>>
>>> Ted T. Logian ?????:
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>>>> >From what I understand, they did not use creative code/license for the
>>>> oss4 support, so I wouldn't see why not.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 23:25 +0200, Sebastian Schneider wrote:
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>>>>> Isn't it a question of the license? I mean is it allowed just to port the OSS Code with the Creative Part to Alsa?
>>>>>
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>>>>>> I had to ask because oss4 has had emu20k1/x-fi support for a long time
>>>>>> now.  However, it has the obvious limitations of oss4 and also you
>>>>>> cannot use usb microphones, so I can't use skype which I'd really like
>>>>>> to do.
>>>>>>
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