From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Davis Subject: Re: 0.9.1 release Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:33:20 -0500 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200303112230.XAA24419@alsa.alsa-project.org> References: Return-path: Received: from mail09.voicenet.com (mail09.voicenet.com [207.103.0.43]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with SMTP id XAA24419 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:30:06 +0100 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:03:37 +0100." Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: ALSA Announce , ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > What's left for 1.0: The sequencer instrument layer will be moved >completely to the user space. how about moving the entire sequencer into user-space? kernel 2.5 (with POSIX clock support) makes this entirely viable, i think. the only ugliness i can see is that inter-thread communication is harder to make totally robust in the face of system/process shutdown than user<->kernel communication (c.f. JACK). there is other stuff that needs to be done for 1.0, not necessarily development. we need GUI tools for many common user operations. we need *much* better documentation than we have now. i also think that the firmware-loading-from-file needs to be done too, and we might need to make more use of tasklets. --p ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en