Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750957AbWATQJj (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:09:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750963AbWATQJj (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:09:39 -0500 Received: from gherkin.frus.com ([192.158.254.49]:24773 "EHLO gherkin.frus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953AbWATQJi (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:09:38 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach In-Reply-To: "from Krzysztof Halasa at Jan 19, 2006 09:24:44 pm" To: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:09:32 -0600 (CST) CC: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@suse.cz X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20060120160932.2CE10DBA1@gherkin.frus.com> From: rct@gherkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1577 Lines: 36 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > (...) > > SOUND_PAS > > Pro Audio Spectrum. Earlier than GUS? 8-bit I think 16-bit actually. SoundBlaster emulation capability of various kinds was claimed by the manufacturer, but I know of few cards of that era that *didn't* make such claims :-). > Don't you all think a large part (if not most) of the "ALSA-unsupported" > cards is no longed in any (Linux-related) use? I wouldn't be surprised > if they just don't exist anymore. Who is to write drivers for them and - > more importantly - who can test them? I can help out with the testing of the PAS, including the SCSI side of the Pro Audio Studio version of the card (another can of worms that the ALSA folks rightly have no responsibility for: it never really worked well with Linux because the driver supported the NCR chipset in polling mode only). As far as other old ISA soundcards I might be able to help test, I also have a GUS with the multiple proprietary CD-ROM interfaces on it, and a MAUI -- the latter being in a semi-modern PIII/1000 machine running FC4. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org rct@frus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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/