From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Apostolos Dimitromanolakis Subject: Re: [Fwd: ALSA request] Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:18:37 -0400 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <40EC76BD.2070905@aei.ca> References: <40EBDCC2.7040807@boosthardware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40EBDCC2.7040807@boosthardware.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: TG Kang , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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" > Date: > Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:59:22 +0900 > To: > > > To: > > > > > 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 > 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 > * > */ > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com