Le 19 août 08 à 14:07, Hannu Savolainen a écrit :

> Stéphane Letz kirjoitti:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are currently investigating how the jackd(mp) server 
>> (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html
>> ) can be ported on Solaris. We read that OSS seems to be the future  
>> of
>> sound on Solaris. We will need to use professional multi-channels
>> audio cards, in particular the RME ones (http://www.rme-audio.de/en_index.php
>> ). What is current the status of OSS on Solaris?
> OSS is fully functional under Solaris. It is available from 4Front. In
> addition Sun is working on integration of OSS v4.0 to OpenSolaris.
>
>> Can we reasonably
>> expect that RME cards will work even the latest ones (like the MADI 
>> http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_madi.php)
>>  ? In what time frame?
>>
> Recent RME cards are not supported by OSS and there are no specific
> plans to add support for them. It can happen if somebody volunteers to
> write
> a driver for it or hires 4Front to do it under contract.

It seems that some RME cards, even MADI ones, are supported by ALSA:

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2008-July/021327.html

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-RME

How complex would it be to start from the ALSA code to develop an OSS  
driver?

Thanks

Stephane Letz
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