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

[David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>]

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 <alan@redhat.com>
> > *
> >
> > 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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