Great news. Much thanks for all the hard work over the last few years. Cheers, Mark On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The FFADO team is proud and happy to announce the release of FFADO 2.0.0. > > As the release candidates have been around for almost one year now > without a significant amount of bug reports we feel confident that the > current code-base has matured. Around the end of november the 1000-th > device was registered as being used with FFADO, which seemed to be a > nice number to triggered the release. > > Furthermore on December 2 the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 has been > released. This version fixes the new kernel FireWire drivers such that > they are compatible with FFADO. So once the distributions pick up this > kernel the old/new kernel stack confusion should be history. > > Thanks go out to the vendors that provided us with gear to support for > the 2.0 release: Echo Digital Audio, Edirol, Ego Systems Inc, Focusrite, > Mackie and Terratec. Kudos for their early-bird support! > > Special thanks also go to BridgeCo and TC Applied for providing us with > their development platforms and for helping with vendor contacts. Their > support makes that FFADO covers the most widely used platforms for > FireWire audio and that we can quickly implement support for new devices. > > Looking ahead to the 2.1 release we can announce that we have > implemented (basic) support for additional devices from Focusrite, > Behringer, Stanton and TC Electronic. We plan to move to beta-testing > 2.1 fairly soon as development on it has been ongoing for more than a > year now. Additionally, work is being done on the RME devices, but its > not yet known when that will be finished. Support for some other vendors > is in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more announcements. > > A second major development is the move of the streaming infrastructure > to kernel space. A kernel-space implementation will bring significant > improvements with respect to reliability and efficiency. Furthermore it > will allow to expose an ALSA interface, meaning that the scope of > FireWire audio on Linux is extended significantly. Thanks to the Google > Summer of Code and the Linux Foundation, work on this has been done > during the summer. The code is not yet ready for use, but things are moving. > > > More information can be found here: > http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.0 > > For the eager, a direct download link: > http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0.0.tar.gz > > > On behalf of the FFADO team, > > Pieter Palmers > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
