On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >
> >> Me Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Can't be done that way. That is why there is an OSS
> >> > wrapper for alsa. The OSS drivers do not support
> >> > all of the capabilities that ALSA drivers do.
> >>
> >> So now there's one person saying it can't be done, and another saying
> >> it has been done. There seems to be slight contradiction here.
> >
> > Not really. This comment is for the OSS API->ALSA driver conversion, but
> > the former question was for the ALSA API->OSS driver conversion.
>
> They were both replying to the same message, so I assumed they were
> referring to the same idea. I must have missed something.
Okay, basically it is possible to emulate ALSA API on top of the OSS API,
but the emulated devices will be limited and the data transfers might be
inefficient. The point about the OSS wrapper is irrelevant.
Also commercial OSS has a GPL project which can map their kernel drivers
into ALSA kernel driver core, but I'm not a big fan for these projects.
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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