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From: Winfried Ritsch <ritsch@iem.mhsg.ac.at>
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Subject: RE: Event Layle / Multitrack driver
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Richard W.E. Furse writes:
 > Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help this project 
 > politically or in coding terms. I have an Event Electronics Gina card (8 
 > analogue outs, 2 analogue ins, 1 SP/DIF in, 1 SP/DIF out) based on the same 
 > hardware as the Laya. I would very much like this to work with Linux.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 
 > -- Richard
 > 
we have a layla, a gina and want to buy some darlas if the linuxdriver 
work.

ok, maybe we should cordinate,

a) it is a good idea just to get some sound out of these cards under
linux and not to do a lot of DSP-things, like hardware accellerated
sound.

b) who want to help, has a card Gina/Darla/layla and can do:
   - DSP Coding
   - linux (alsa) driver coding
   - Debugging on the card (need of a JTAG interface with software)
   - has time for doing this

I can help a) decoding the Card Gina/Layla
but have not much time...

but I think Echo or Event does not release the soundcard api, because
they will do a lot of change in the future and therefore we have to
use our own DSP-Code which is loaded in the card at boot time, to
garantee the driver to work on future releases.

I can put together a sample develop-package for running (debugging
under wine), but there is a a license problem to release it for free,
because the assembler (Mototrola) and debugger (Digital domain) is not 
free (or execatly no source code), even you need a developping board
to get the licence for the debugger.

But there is a free assembler for linux, which is not motorola synthax
compatible ! without linking features and there are developping tools
for Thahiti, which have a free assembler but also not motorola synthax
compatible and made for ISA-Cards and DSP5600x, so we have to decide
which to use for the project.

in hoping there is a start

 mfg winfried

