Hi. As some of you may know, Creamware (http://www.creamware.de) is under new management since 2004 - and they have changed their mind regarding Linux support. Porting the SFP (Noah is part of SFP) to Linux is more than writing a mere driver, 'cause of the DSP based approach... It may be difficult to port the whole platform, but as an additional benefit (a huge one), all plugins and softsynths are already platform independent - porting the platform would give instant access to lots of high-quality plugins - they could be used on Linux as soon as the platform is ported (the plugins are encrypted archives containing the DSP code and the interface description, everything from the uplading to the interface drawing is handled by the SFP software). And the next version of the plugin IDE will be released for free anytime soon...
But there is one problem: Creamware would open-source as much as possible and necessary to make SFP work, but not everything. I talked to Frank Hund of CW today, and he suggested a solution: They would give the specs and all sources to Linux developers under an NDA, to check what parts of the system would be needed to make the card work with ALSA (the basic soundcard features, and the bridge to use the SFP software). Those parts would be released under the GPL, and could become part of ALSA. The remaining parts of the platform (those needed to upload plugins to the DSP's) could be ported and provided binary only by Linux developers that signed the NDA, and may be provided for several architectures (x86, AMD64, PPC). Anyone interested in helping out (I'm not a coder, just a mere musician)? If there is interest, I will forward it to Frank. Ciao, -- Willie Sippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ z ] ! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
