Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] WM97xx touch driver AC97 plugin
From: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Zabolotny <zap@homelink.ru>,
       Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
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On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 22:51, Ian Molton wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Why an OSS driver and not ALSA?  OSS is deprecated.
> 
>  From my POV, because I havent got time to port it to ALSA yet ;-)
> 
> from another POV, because ALSA is broken on ARM (or was), and other 
> platforms, wrt the mmap() operation mode. this makes it a bit pointless 
> to port a driver to thats mainly used for arm based PDAs...

It's now also used on MIPS and x86 platforms, in PDA, Cell phone and POS
applications. 

I will be speaking to the ALSA list when I return from vacation about
the possibility of a similar plugin architecture for AC97 codecs.

Liam

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