Re: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:54:45 -0500,
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:28 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:22:23PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:46 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>3. no ALSA drivers for the same hardware
>>>>>
>>>>>SOUND_SB 
>>>>
>>>>ALSA certainly does support "100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64,
>>>>ESS, Jazz16)", it would be a joke if it didn't...
>>>
>>>That's not the problem, I should have added an explanation:
>>>
>>>SOUND_SB (due to SOUND_KAHLUA and SOUND_PAS)
>>>
>>
>>Hmm.  From sound/oss/kahlua.c:
>>
>>/*
>> *      Initialisation code for Cyrix/NatSemi VSA1 softaudio
>> *
>> *      (C) Copyright 2003 Red Hat Inc <alan@redhat.com>
>> *
>>
>>Why was a new OSS driver written and accepted at such a late date, when
>>OSS was already deprecated?
> 
> 
> You'll find out that it must be pretty easy to write kahlua driver for
> ALSA, too, if you look at kahlua.c.  Just need a hardware to certify
> if this is really demanded...

Is this the audio on the Cyrix MediaGX (later National Semiconductor 
Geode GXm)?  I have access to hardware with that CPUs that I can test 
with if someone wants to write an ALSA driver. Er... though I'm not sure 
what VSA version the BIOS has.

I seem to recall that the Soundblaster 16 emulation provided by the VSA 
code worked fine so perhaps this can be dropped entirely.  I've not 
touched a MediaGX based board in many years so I may be remembering 
incorrectly.  The Soundblaster 16 emulation does work fine on AMD Geode 
GX1 boards.

David Vrabel


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