On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 19:51 +0530, Pharaoh . wrote: > Hi, > I am very new to ALSA and just trying to get familier with the things, I > have > got few questions. > > 1. Is it true that all the OSS drivers are included only in directory > linux/sound/oss and no where else? Afaik, mostly yes. I've seen some in other places, although they were never official. > 2. There are arch specific folders like ARM, MIPS etc, so all the drivers in > these folders are ALSA or OSS? ALSA > 3. If I write a new driver for an OMAP based board, it should go in to > linux/sound/arm/omap/ right? Or only ALSA drivers for this board should go > there? It could either go in linux/sound/arm or you could write a more generic omap driver (i.e. not tightly coupled to either your board or codec) and place it in sound/soc/omap/, this would allow your work to be used on other boards/platforms. > 4. I have some old OSS drivers > which were written for my board, do I need to make them ALSA drivers > to be in line with the latest trend i.e. phasing out OSS drivers? Yes, I would recommend this. Liam _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
