Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile pcm.4 snd_ad1816.4 snd_als4000.4 snd_atiixp.4 snd_cmi.4 snd_cs4281.4 snd_csa.4 snd_ds1.4 snd_emu10k1.4 snd_emu10kx.4 snd_envy24.4 snd_envy24ht.4 snd_es137x.4 snd_ess.4 snd_fm801.4 snd_gusc.4 snd_hda.4 snd_ich.4 ...

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Simon Schubert <corecode@crater.dragonflybsd.org> (Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:47:04 -0800 (PST)):
> >  Say hello to a sound system update from FreeBSD.  This includes the long
> >  awaited Intel High Definition Audio (HDA) a.k.a. Azalia support.
> You added the man pages for the envy and the emu10kx drivers, but not
> the drivers themself.
>
> I didn't looked at the code, but I hope it is at least from December. In
> November Ariff committed low latency fixes. In December he improved the
> HDA stuff (works out of the box with more soundcards). Yesterday I
> added some emu10kx improvements and the author of the emu10kx driver is
> going to send some more improvements soon. So if the code is not as
> recent as at least the code FreeBSD got in December, I suggest to sync
> some more (there are some more HDA changes).

The code is pre-november, the manpages are more recent (some even from 
december ;)). Syncing now should be easier at least, thanks for the 
heads-up.

> The code also contains some API extensions which sync with the OSS v4
> drivers. All in all a good base of some very nice upcomming features.

A bit off-topic perhaps, but I wonder how much of a future OSS has, with 
ALSA being sort-of the standard on the most popular open sores operating 
system, Linux.

> If anyone is interested: http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/soundsystem for (a
> little bit) more. If someone has some improvement suggestions just tell
> me. If someone wants to help out on this page (I don't think there are
> objections to share the wiki page, we just have to make sure that we
> add dates to the entries and tell the people until which date the DFly
> code is synced with the FreeBSD code), tell me and I arrange access.

Sounds like a good idea to keep this in sync, but I don't think we have 
the manpower to architect major changes or updates to the sound 
infrastructure, so we'll probably be 'leeching' your well-respected 
efforts :). Though I'm just speaking for myself, don't value it too much :).

Cheers, and thanks again for the heads-up,
--
        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen@netphreax.net

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