Hi, On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:41 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:28 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > > >> William Pitcock wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 14:23 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>> > >>>> Will anyone start porting from OSS? It doesn't look like so much > >>>> amount of codes... > >>>> > >>>> > >>> I intend to port from OSS soon. I just need to learn more about the > >>> driver's internals. > >>> > >>> William > >>> > >>> > >> I now had some datasheets for the x-fi. > >> I think the first thing we should do is create a GPL version of the > >> header files. > >> Shall I do that task? > >> > >> James > >> > >> > >> > > > > Yes! That sounds great. I have two different X-Fi cards, so let me know > > when you have the headers ready, and we can merge them into the OSS4 > > driver as an initial effort. That way everything we have is > > theoretically free. I'll have to recheck what is in OSS4 though. > > > > William > > > Why put it into OSS4? > I would put it into the alsa-driver hg repository as a new driver. > The header would go into the alsa-driver include dir. > Then, start by writing a new alsa driver to just playback to the front > speakers with possibly a volume control. > Once we have that in alsa-driver working, we can then add features > gradually. > I don't think we will be able to use the OSS4 code, that is only really > useful as a reference. > I concur that putting it into OSS4 is a waste of time. There are other files marked as not being GPL. So, we need to start from scratch. William
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