To: Jim Lowe <james@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
Cc: multimedia@rah.star-gate.com, cvs-committers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Ehm. Uh, just what *is* the state of the sound driver in 2.2 and 2.1? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:57:30 CST."
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 09:50:49 -0800
Message-Id: <1978.819481849@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> what the answer to that would be.  There are advantages and disadvantages
> to boths sides of that argument, but I think it should be considered by
> everyone who is interested in sound/multimedia.

Definitely.  My vote would be for continued Linux compatibility, if we
were voting.  I think that this brings us a much wider base of
software, and that's probably the #1 priority, regardless of the
various issues of technical merit involved.

					Jordan

> 
> Maybe the best approach would be to use whatever drivers we feel comfortable
> with and creating an api to be compatible with the other version of the sound
> drivers.  I would be very interested in other thoughts on an api, sound
> drivers and other ideas.  Perhaps a discussion on the multimedia list would
> be in order.
> 
> > I notice, in fact, that there's not even really anybody penciled in
> > for "/sys/i386/isa/sound" in FreeBSD. :-(
> > 
> > It'd really be nice if somebody (with commit privileges) just sort of
> > stepped forward to "own" that directory, and by "own" I don't
> > necessarily mean "drive the unofficial development" (it seems there
> > are plenty of folks doing that just fine already) I mean "take
> > responsibility for the bits in tree and decide when the time is ripe
> > to take in updates (or when things are too broken to live without
> > them)."
> 
> Gee, I thought that was you Jordan :-).
> 
> 	-Jim
>