From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:03:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> List-Id: References: <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tomasz K?oczko Cc: Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:51:52AM +0100, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [..] > >> OSS is universal cross-unix API. ALSA is Linux-only. > > > >How "universal cross-unix" is the OSS API really? > > > >Which operating systems besides Linux have a native sound system > >supporting the OSS API [1]? > > > >I know about FreeBSD and partial support in NetBSD. > > > >Are there any other [2]? > > Solaris, AIX .. > Full list is avalaible in "Operating System" listbox on > http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi As I said in footnote 1 of my email, this has little value for application developers since only few users on these systems use this commercial sound system. > kloczek cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed