Steinberg Midex 8 driver development

Steinberg Midex 8 driver development

[Norman Schleicher]

I am currently on development for the Steinberg Midex8 USB driver.

At the moment I can send notes to my Midi equipment via this device. Receiving is currently not implemented.

My questions are:
1. Are there any tools to test the Alsa-Midi compatiblity ?
2. May I release some milestone results to the Alsa project ? Eg when the driver supports a small subset of send commands supported by midi.
3. What are the requirements to get released in an official alsa release package ?
4. Who is responsible for the version management ? Where can I read how the source code is organized in the repository and how to manage tags and branches for the development ?(I don't need an introduction how to use CVS, thats clear for me.)

Regards Norman

Re: Steinberg Midex 8 driver development

[Clemens Ladisch]

Norman Schleicher wrote:
> I am currently on development for the Steinberg Midex8 USB driver.
> 
> At the moment I can send notes to my Midi equipment via this device.
> Receiving is currently not implemented.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1. Are there any tools to test the Alsa-Midi compatiblity ?

You can send raw MIDI data with amidi, or play entire .mid files with
aplaymidi.

To see received data, use amidi or aseqdump.

> 2. May I release some milestone results to the Alsa project ?

Just publish them somewhere.

> 3. What are the requirements to get released in an official alsa release
> package ?

Post the patches against the latest Hg tree here.

> 4. Where can I read how the source code is organized in the repository

The alsa-kernel tree contains an almost exact copy of the sound/
directory in the Linux kernel tree.

The alsa-driver tree contains the build mechanism for the separate
alsa-driver package, patches and compatibility code to make the code
in alsa-kernel work with older kernels, and some drivers that are too
new or too horrible to allow them into the kernel.

> and how to manage tags and branches for the development ?

https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=SourceCodeRepository
and see the Hg docs.


HTH
Clemens