public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Zabolotny <zap@homelink.ru>,
	Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] WM97xx touch driver AC97 plugin
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:59:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105271630.3204.7.camel@odin.exize.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E0640C.1030500@f2s.com>

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 22:51, Ian Molton wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Why an OSS driver and not ALSA?  OSS is deprecated.
> 
>  From my POV, because I havent got time to port it to ALSA yet ;-)
> 
> from another POV, because ALSA is broken on ARM (or was), and other 
> platforms, wrt the mmap() operation mode. this makes it a bit pointless 
> to port a driver to thats mainly used for arm based PDAs...

It's now also used on MIPS and x86 platforms, in PDA, Cell phone and POS
applications. 

I will be speaking to the ALSA list when I return from vacation about
the possibility of a similar plugin architecture for AC97 codecs.

Liam


      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-09 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-07 14:02 [PATCH 1/5] WM97xx touch driver AC97 plugin Liam Girdwood
2005-01-08 22:24 ` Lee Revell
2005-01-08 22:51   ` Ian Molton
2005-01-09 11:59     ` Liam Girdwood [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1105271630.3204.7.camel@odin.exize.com \
    --to=liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rlrevell@joe-job.com \
    --cc=spyro@f2s.com \
    --cc=vince@simtec.co.uk \
    --cc=zap@homelink.ru \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox