> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 01:31 +0200, François Revol wrote:
> 
> > Btw, anyone tried porting to minix recently ? What do they use for 
> > audio anyway ?
> I tried a while ago, but the effort stalled because it proved that 
> the
> design of Minix is too different from the other OSes that OSS was
> designed to be portable on. Their system compiler can't even handle 
> 64
> bit integers corectly.. They are using some primitive framework that
> only supports 2 chipsets and provides very basic functionality.
> A port to the other monolithic or maybe hybrid kernels out there 
> would
> be much more realistic and easier to do.
Indeed, it was quite straightforward for BeOS and Haiku, minus the 
linux-workarounding-buildsystem and -errno stuff.

OSX was mentionned some time ago...

François.

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