Re: OSS4 X-Fi driver port to ALSA

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

William Pitcock wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:28 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>    
>> William Pitcock wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:23 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Will anyone start porting from OSS?  It doesn't look like so much
>>>> amount of codes...
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I intend to port from OSS soon. I just need to learn more about the
>>> driver's internals.
>>>
>>> William
>>>
>>>        
>> I now had some datasheets for the x-fi.
>> I think the first thing we should do is create a GPL version of the
>> header files.
>> Shall I do that task?
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>      
>
> Yes! That sounds great. I have two different X-Fi cards, so let me know
> when you have the headers ready, and we can merge them into the OSS4
> driver as an initial effort. That way everything we have is
> theoretically free. I'll have to recheck what is in OSS4 though.
>
> William
>    
Why put it into OSS4?
I would put it into the alsa-driver hg repository as a new driver.
The header would go into the alsa-driver include dir.
Then, start by writing a new alsa driver to just playback to the front 
speakers with possibly a volume control.
Once we have that in alsa-driver working, we can then add features 
gradually.
I don't think we will be able to use the OSS4 code, that is only really 
useful as a reference.

James