Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Before we go too far with these fixes, would investing the effort in > :OpenSound be better? > : > :http://developer.opensound.com/ > : > :Anecdotally, it has more supported devices and cleaner code. I thought > :the sound code in FreeBSD was based off an older version of this. > > Well, we still need the lockmgr changes for the release, because > we can't have it panicing. If someone wants to do a fresh port > of OpenSound that sounds great to me! But we != me, my plate is full.
Me neither, regardless of interest in the area. I'm also a bit sceptical regarding claims "it's superior" - I haven't seen anything but 4Front marketing materials backing this. API might be cleaner, but for example hda in FreeBSD supports more hardware/features than OpenSound driver and I don't see envy24 driver at all in released sources. I'm also a bit sceptical about future of OpenSound. I don't think that OpenSound is relevant any more in Linux, they have alsa which _is_ superior than OSS. It's also clear that 4Front has intention to move development into community (see "Possible projects for contributors" http://developer.opensound.com/opensource_oss/). Will it work at all? We (DragonFly) don't have resources (yet) to maintain sound drivers, so we have to rely on community regarding this. So, I wouldn't rush to make decisions regarding this. -- Hasso Tepper
