Hi. From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:55:59 -0500
[...] > >What about situation when there are no hw manufacturers willing to create > >Linux driver nor give documentation to write one? > > its not true that no hw manufacturers are willing to create linux > drivers nor give documentation to write one. this is simply > misinformation and misleading. OK. This was not the right word. no hardware vendor is willing to help in the creation of a GPL'd driver for a card with a real DSP. - Better? Annyway I know companies and hardware. I wrote a SANE backend for Avision scanner (which would work with the new HP USB onces if they would be willing to provide help ...) - and also helped to debug the XFree driver for SiS630 chips (this code really sucks ...). - Take a look at my homepage ... The fact is that hardare is often really buggy - or vendors doens't like to provide specs (Avision parallel protocol is my perosnal's next example ...). So why is it sooo hard to believe that we can't open the hardware marked - like we did with software? We do not want to create a DSP or a CPU (oh - stop - the F-CPU guys want ;-) [...] > there are good reasons why certain kinds of devices don't exist. the > most common is that hardly anyone wants them. the fact that you and a > few other people want them *a lot* doesn't do anything to balance the > fact that very few people want them at all. companies that make small > production runs need to charge a fortune for each item; companies that > make industrial sized production runs need customers. which of the two > are you willing and/or able to provide: lots of money, or sufficient > customers? Please continue to refuce writing drivers not under a GPL that are only released in binary form (like the NVidea XFree driver). It doesn't work on all machines, architectures - and maybe not with the next major kernel or glibc ... - and there is NO way to fix such a binary. > >I could even find use for "card" with 128 sample-synced input channels and > >at least 16 DSP processors. > > no such device is being made for any OS at this time. the > kyma/capybara comes close, but has nothing like that input channel > count, AFAIK. > > --p k33p h4ck1n6 Ren� -- Ren� Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms.
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