On Tue, 23.09.08 10:23, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > In short: how modern software wants to drive a sound card has changed > > quite a bit. And OSS3 is from the early 90's. So it's focussed on > > hardware, and it is focussed on hw and sw from 20y ago. An SB16 is > > quite different from a modern HDA sound card. > > Not vastly, its a DMA pipe with a DAC on the end There's not necessarily a DAC at "the end" anymore. Could be SPDIF too. And if you say that a modern sound card behaves very similarly to early 90's sound card because it ues DMA, then you could say that sound card is very similar to a harddisk, too. Which is definitely true in a way. The really interesting part of audio is not the data transfer, it's the timing. And that's where hardware changed. And software too. And OSS is broken and legacy. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
