On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:46:38 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >Your mention of "yamaha's coming linux efforts" interests me strangly ;) > >Care to share anything? > > they announced last month that next year or soon after, they would be > using embedded linux in just about all their consumer keyboards and > some other products. it was mentioned here on LAD as well as > elsewhere.
Yes, of course, I forgot. > >Granted the connection mangement part of mLAN is dubious, I've not been > >able to read the specs (for obvious reasons). When I spoke before I was > >thinking more of A+M over IEEE-1394, which the linux kernel allready > >supports to some extent, not mLAN as a whole. > > right, but this is more or less useless by itself, as i understand it, > because nobody knows whether to connect to the datastream(s) or > not. sending a stream from A to B involves telling B to listen to A by > hand, or something like that. Yes, iso 1394 works a bit like IP multicast from what I remeber. - Steve
