Hi, At Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:35:35 -0400, mjander wrote: > > Hi, > > I started writing a new driver for the Aureal Vortex soundcards.
wow, how did you get hardware information? > Now the howto is pretty good, and the basic stuff is nearly > complete, but > how do i integrate my driver into the configure scripts, > Makefiles, and > all sorts of thingiees that makee up the tree ? > > I placed the driver (several files) into the directory > "pci/vortex". I managed to get the configure script to recognice > the "vortex" card fiddling in the acinclude.m4 file, but when > i do "make" it doesnt compile the files in "/pci/vortex". This > directory has a apropiate makefile (i took the one of the > emu10k1 an d modiifyed it). > > What is the "official" procedure to integrate my driver ? ah, that's not on the howto yet :) first, the test drivers should be put into alsa-driver tree. they will be brought up to alsa-kernel tree eventually and submitted to linux 2.5 kernel later. in your case, alsa-driver/pci/vx222 or alsa-driver/pci/pdplus would be a good example. add the vortex directory to extra-subdir-y in alsa-driver/pci/Makefile: extra-subdir-y := pdplus vx222 vortex create a new Makefile in alsa-driver/pci/vortex (see vx222 or pdplus Makefile). add the definition to alsa-driver/utils/Modules.dep like below: %dir linux/sound/pci/vortex |snd-vortex snd-pcm ... where the second and later arguments are dependent lowlevel modules. and also define the necessary dependency in alsa-driver/acore/Makefile or whererever the dependent lowlevel modules exist. finally, run ./cvscompile to regenerate the configure script, etc. ciao, Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
