Re: [Fwd: ALSA request]

[Apostolos Dimitromanolakis <apostolos@aei.ca>]

Hi,

We appreciate your interest in supporting writing Linux drives for your 
products.  There are 2 ways to have your products supported:

1. Your company writes a driver following the ALSA driver specification 
for the sound cards you are interested in supporting. Then the code of 
the driver will become part of the ALSA drivers that are included in 
every linux distribution automatically. This means that the source code 
of the driver will become part of the ALSA project and can benefit for 
further improvements by the open-source community.

2. Your company releases information on programming the chips of the 
sound card to the ALSA developers (through the alsa-devel mailing list 
for example) and the developers of ALSA take care of writing a driver 
for you automatically. This means no work on your part other than 
providing help to the developers with the datasheets of the chips, 
specific interconnections between them and answering any questions that 
arise. Again the code will become part of the ALSA project and will be 
included in all future kernel releases.

In the case of your company I think the 2nd way will be the best as 
there is already partial support for some Egosys based soundcards in 
Linux and the developers that wrote those drivers can finish the gaps 
with some more information from your part.

Apostolos


> Subject:
> ALSA request
> From:
> "TG Kang" <tg@egosys.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:59:22 +0900
> To:
> <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>
>
> To:
> <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>
>
>
>  
> Hi,
> My company, Ego Systems Inc., is beginning to consider making our 
> products compatible to ALSA. So far, we haven't made much effort to 
> put our products into the Linux world for some reasons.
> We produce soundcards and audio interfaces targeted to both 
> professional and regular consumers. If you don't have much information 
> on this company and its products, looking at www.esi-pro.com 
> <http://www.esi-pro.com> will help.
> Now that the demand from inside and outside of this company arises, we 
> are seriously willing to hook our products with linux/ALSA.
> I've read the 'Getting support for your hardware' section on ALSA 
> website carefully, and got aware of what ALSA developers want from 
> manufacturers.
>  
> Now, please give us more detailed procedure we need to take.
> If you are not the proper contact point regarding this request, please 
> forward it to a proper person.
>  
> Personally, as one of the Linux 'freaks', I hope every Linux user can 
> feel free to use our products.
>  
> Best regards,
>  
> /*
>  *                            
>  * Kang, Taegoo
>  *
>  * R&D dept. / Software Engineer
>  * Ego Systems Inc.                 
>  *
>  * phone: +82-2-2164-9832
>  *
>  * www.esi-pro.com <http://www.esi-pro.com>
>  *                           
>  */
>  
>  




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