Re: looking for developer/s

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi TG,
> 
> first of all, it's great to see that ESI joins us!
> 
> At Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:06:32 +0900,
> TG Kang wrote:
> 
>>Hi, all.
>>Glad to post on this ML again.
>>We, ESI, are currently looking for developers who are interested in
>>our products and willing to write ALSA-GPLed drivers for them. 
>>We are ready to support ALSA developers who have been feeling
>>inconvenience to see ESI's products out of linux boundary, and those
>>who have been complaining of ESI's ignorance to their effort, so far.
>>
>>Among our products, Prodigy7.1 and QuataFire610 are on the top of
>>the wish list for now, but it doesn't mean we put aside other
>>products. 
>>Anyone who wants to contact us in this regards, please don't
>>hesitate. 
>>The contact point is:  tg( a t )egosys.net
> 
> 
> As mentioned before, Prodigy7.1 is already supported in some level by
> ice1724 driver.  If you find any lacking features, please let us
> know.  With a necessary datasheet or sample driver codes, we can fix
> the existing driver.  Also, if you have similar products (e.g. based
> on the same chipset), it would be easy to port it.  The ice1712-based
> cards wouldn't be too hard to support, too.  M-Audio and Terratec
> boards are supported as well.
> 
> FireWire is becoming now a 'hot theme'.  Currently, some people seem
> working on this but on different products.  IIRC, Daniel Wagner and
> Thomas Charbonnel get involved.  Please let us know if any other
> people are working, too.  I'd like to keep the discussion over
> firewire support as open as possible.
> 
> USB audio is already supported -- when the device follows *really* USB
> audio/midi spec, it should work as it is.  If any vendor-specific
> workaround is needed, we need to add a quirk entry.  If a firmware is
> needed, the problem will be much harder...
> 
> 
> Regarding the support from Egosys - how well is it supposed to be?
> Can we get the full datasheet, and/or Win/Mac driver codes?
> How about the test hardware?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> --
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org
> 

My Questions are the same as Takashi's. The best initial support that 
Egosys could give the linux community is the publishing of datasheets.
You seem to keep offering "support" but never actually deliver any 
answers to our questions, or any datasheets.




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