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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:11:50 +0100
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To: alsa-devel@jcu.cz
Subject: Re: OSS to ALSA integration, ALSA future
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Hi,

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 01:07:05PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> Looks these questions are important. Yes, I willn't work on new drivers
> for soundcards in near future. I want work on sequencer and GUS WaveTable
> driver.

Jaroslav, you have done a great job in the past, keep up the good work,
regardless what your focus is! (The API is more important than single
drivers. If you have exemplary implementation of the API in the GUS
WaveTable driver, other will follow). Btw, can anybody (I don't mean you)
guide me how I can start to find out how to use the SB live from Linux?
I just don't know where to start...
 
> My feeling is that best way will be leave OSS code as is and don't try
> do some ALSA API -> OSS API converters in kernel. This isn't clean
> solution - ALSA uses in all designed interfaces more progressive API
> and OSS code have very big limitations.

Agreed. The OSS code is... well, take a look at it and compare it with the
alsa-driver. Alsa's backward compatibility is already a good compromise.

> in most cases stable and converting OSS code to ALSA code should take
> about one or two days for programmer which are familiar with both
> drivers. This is reason why I want with Chris David <cdavid@umich.edu>
> create good documentation howto code new ALSA driver very soon.

Hey, this seems to answer part of my first question, thank you :)
 
> Last time shows that people
> know that OSS is old hybrid which shouldn't be used for serious work at
> both ends (driver and application).

:)

Marcus

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