You question about drivers for Linux (fwd)

[Radu Raduta <radu@mail.dnttm.ro>]

 as this was originally only posted to linux-kernel, i took myself the
liberty of forwarding here also. hope it helps.

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:25:02 -0800
From: Jacob Hawley <jhawley@creaf.com>
To: emarshal@logic.net
Cc: "Linux (Kernel Reflector)" <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: You question about drivers for Linux

Creative intends to put out two equally important pieces for the Linux
community.

1) An OSS Binary driver that can be used in the next few months from a company
called 4Front.  This will allow Linux users to begin using their SB-Lives
immediately, while Creative becomes more familiar with Linux.  This solves the
immediate issue of a SB-Live working on Linux.

2) Longer term we will produce a library(.LIB) that can be linked into ALSA,
OSS, or what ever.  This library will expose the features of the chip and will
allow for additional functionality to be added.  I suspect this is what most
people are actually asking for.  In addition, we will write some form of
programmers reference guide to the chip so that anyone not interested in using
the library can program their own driver.  We will likely put this out as a SDK,
which will include some sample source code for initializing the chip.

The timing on item #1 is as soon as possible (probably in the next few months),
and the timing on item #2 is probably 6-9 months, depending on how long it takes
me to hire engineers that are proficient at Linux & audio.

I have added myself to this reflector so please feel free to contact me through
that or through jacob_hawley@msn.com

Jacob Hawley
Sr. Manager, Custom Engineering
Creative Labs, Inc.
www.soundblaster.com


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