From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Smietanowski Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:41:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <43BCDBD5.8090601@stesmi.com> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------enig1380D3B53F873CBC322C01A0" List-Id: References: <200601031522.06898.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <43BB16C0.3080308@stesmi.com> <43BB9A0B.3010209@stesmi.com> <7e5f60720601041903s3462bf9bib9ada16fe70ef988@mail.gmail.com> <1136445541.24475.21.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1136445541.24475.21.camel@mindpipe> To: Lee Revell Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Peter Bortas , =?UTF-8?B?VG9tYXN6IEvFgm9jemtv?= , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , 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 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1380D3B53F873CBC322C01A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. >>>No. Everything on Solaris uses the Solaris native sound API except for >>>possibly quick-hack ports of applications from Linux. Doing anything >>>else would as you say be insane and break things like device >>>redirection on Sunrays. >>> >> >>Device redirection is just "writing to a different /dev node" - on >>Solaris and Linux. IIRC, the API is the same. > > This whole "OSS is cross platform" thing seems mostly like a cop out by > lazy developers who can't be bothered to grok ALSA. None of the usual > offenders (Skype, Quake 3, Doom 3) run on any other Unix platform so why > not just use ALSA? > > It does not help that the most problematic apps seem to be proprietary > (most likely they are abusing the OSS API in a way that no one > anticipated). What's actually funny (well actually it's not) is that Doom3 for instance works great using the OSS emul of ALSA but not using native ALSA for some reason. I haven't reported it cause it's a commercial program without source. ( The sound stutters all the time, and not just when moving, etc, but all the time ) // Stefan --------------enig1380D3B53F873CBC322C01A0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDvNvcBrn2kJu9P78RA6FNAKC2MGFMefw4qpy/4BuJTtQ6r2mvTQCfW2ls ooFhZHAMcrkbyuULhzbjOsI= =RXzr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1380D3B53F873CBC322C01A0--