On Friday 12 May 2006 17:48, Pieter Palmers was like: > To be really clear: > "... to be clear, they will work with [future versions of] freebob ..." > > There are plans to include support for more firewire devices into > freebob, but currently only the devices based on the BridgeCo DM1000 & > DM1500 are supported. And not even all of these due to some excessive > customisation of the reference firmware by some device manufacturers > (most notably M-Audio for the 410 and the 1418). > > Currently there are two other chipsets/solutions that are planned to be > supported: > - Metric Halo devices (Mobile I/O 2882 & Mobile I/O ULN-2) > - Devices based on the DICE-II chipset, as far as the actual device > manufactureres cooperate. > > According to my information, almost all current firewire interfaces use > either a BridgeCo chipset or a DICE-II chipset. Having support for these > two majors, and adding some smaller full-custom devices (like the Metric > Halo's) will have us covering a lot of devices. > > In the case of full custom devices, like the Metric Halo or the RME > Fireface, support will be completely dependant on the stance of the > device manufacturer. So no RME support. Nor any MOTU support. > > To summarize: if you want to buy a FW interface, go ahead and buy one of > the supported ones. They do work on linux. Some more advanced features > are missing, but that's only a matter of time. Thanks for such a clear statement Pieter. Great work! I'm interested, how much of this work has been supported by the various hardware manufacturers in terms of information or even hardware (? ;) or have you bootstrapped this project entirely from the Linux end? -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.
