Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965155AbWADADs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965152AbWADADs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:48 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:6674 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965154AbWADADq (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:03:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 01:03:44 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Tomasz K?oczko Cc: Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-ID: <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> References: <200601031629.21765.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060103170316.GA12249@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 39 On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:51:52AM +0100, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > [..] > >> OSS is universal cross-unix API. ALSA is Linux-only. > > > >How "universal cross-unix" is the OSS API really? > > > >Which operating systems besides Linux have a native sound system > >supporting the OSS API [1]? > > > >I know about FreeBSD and partial support in NetBSD. > > > >Are there any other [2]? > > Solaris, AIX .. > Full list is avalaible in "Operating System" listbox on > http://www.4front-tech.com/download.cgi As I said in footnote 1 of my email, this has little value for application developers since only few users on these systems use this commercial sound system. > kloczek cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/