porting alsa

porting alsa

[ryan olejnik]

hello,

I would like to get involved with porting alsa to NetBSD. does anyone
know an official project, or is interested in helping this become a reality?

thanks,
ryan olejnik


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Re: porting alsa

[Clemens Ladisch]

ryan olejnik wrote:
> I would like to get involved with porting alsa to NetBSD.

Most drivers are licensed under the GPL only.  I doubt that
"completely rewrite from scratch" is what you want to do.


Regards,
Clemens



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porting alsa

[Constantine Kousoulos]

Hello,

Is it possible to port alsa-driver to a non-linux os? If so, what 
are ALSA's dependencies on the linux kernel that should also be 
ported in order for alsa-driver to work?

Thanks,
Constantine


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Re: porting alsa

[Benoit Fouet]

hi,

Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to port alsa-driver to a non-linux os? If so, what 
> are ALSA's dependencies on the linux kernel that should also be 
> ported in order for alsa-driver to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Constantine
>   

if we trust the ALSA full name (which is what i do), you can not...
i think alsa driver is deeply linked to linux kernel functionning, and
it will not be easy to port it on a non Linux OS

-- Ben


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Re: porting alsa

[Clemens Ladisch]

Constantine Kousoulos wrote:
> Is it possible to port alsa-driver to a non-linux os?

Yes, but it wouldn't be easy.

IIRC some old ALSA version (0.5.x) was ported to OS/2.

> If so, what are ALSA's dependencies on the linux kernel that should
> also be ported in order for alsa-driver to work?

ALSA is (part of) the Linux kernel.

Grep for "#include <linux/something>" to see what other parts of the
kernel are used.


HTH
Clemens

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