Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

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Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:54:45 -0500,
Lee Revell wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware

SOUND_SB

ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64,
ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't...

That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation:

SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS)


Hmm.  From sound/oss/kahlua.c:

/*
*      Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio
*
*      (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <[email protected]>
*

Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when
OSS was already deprecated?


You'll find out that it must be pretty easy to write kahlua driver for
ALSA, too, if you look at kahlua.c.  Just need a hardware to certify
if this is really demanded...

Is this the audio on the Cyrix MediaGX (later National Semiconductor Geode GXm)? I have access to hardware with that CPUs that I can test with if someone wants to write an ALSA driver. Er... though I'm not sure what VSA version the BIOS has.

I seem to recall that the Soundblaster 16 emulation provided by the VSA code worked fine so perhaps this can be dropped entirely. I've not touched a MediaGX based board in many years so I may be remembering incorrectly. The Soundblaster 16 emulation does work fine on AMD Geode GX1 boards.

David Vrabel
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