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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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Subject: Re: port of ALSA to NetBSD?
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On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Zach Fine wrote:

> 
> Hello, my name is Zach Fine, I run NetBSD, and I dig audio (Gravis
> Ultrasound user since they appeared on the market). I am interested in
> starting a project to port the ALSA driver to NetBSD. 
> 
> I've just sent out one exploratory email to the port-i386-NetBSD
> mailing list to see if there's any interest in working on such a
> project.
> 
> This is my second exploratory email of the night. If I succeed in
> putting together a possible NetBSD development team, I'm curious
> whether the ALSA folk would be interested in working with, aiding, or
> otherwise communicating with us.

Yes.. We will help you with porting, of course... 

> I'm also curious whether you have any thoughts about this idea. Is the
> ALSA code so operating system dependent that it cannot be ported to
> another free unix without extreme modification?

Most of code isn't system dependand, but some code needs some
modifications... 

> I'd bet that the process of developing a NetBSD port of ALSA would
> lead to FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports as well.

I hope, too..

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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