On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:51:37AM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > At Fri, 20 May 2011 00:19:12 +0100, >> > Ralf Baechle wrote: >> >> >> >> OSS has very little if any useful life in it left for MIPS, at least from >> >> my perspective. So I propose to remove the Au1550 driver - there is an >> >> ALSA replacement for it available. >> > >> > Even two variants available: one in ASoC driver and one in old ALSA >> > driver. >> >> The current ASoC code can replace sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c, >> but sound/mips/au1x00.c is for different (earlier) chips. I wrote an ASoC >> variant of this a long time ago, but I can't test it on real hardware. > > My immediate interest is to kill off sounds/oss/ on MIPS because > sound/oss/soundcard.c is fairly ISA centric and does not build for some > some MIPS systems with only half-arsed ISA support, that is no DMA support. > > Manuel, I got a DBAu1250 board here and maybe I can find a DBAu1500 > Zinfandel board under some dusty hardware pile; would that be suitable for > testing your work? Yes, the db1500 would be perfect. Manuel
