Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-10 Thread Willie Sippel
> I think we've to split the theme to different parts. > > - an usb driver for the Noah with the capabilitiy to use both usb > configurations (control and midi/audio) at the same time. > > -an another (pci)driver to support the creamware DSP-cards. > > - an user-space application to manage the d

Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-10 Thread Hartmut Geissbauer
Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:28:39 +0100 (MET), > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > AFAIK drivers for ATI hardware are developed in a similar way (ATI > > gives specs under an NDA, the resulting driver is open source). > > > > Takashi, is that right? > > yes. but just make sure tha

Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-10 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:28:39 +0100 (MET), Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Willie Sippel wrote: > > > But I'm not sure about, wether the NDA agrees in the basic alsa > > > principles. What are the developers of alsa are thinking about that > > > agreement? > > AFAIK drivers for ATI hardware are develop

Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-10 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Willie Sippel wrote: > > But I'm not sure about, wether the NDA agrees in the basic alsa > > principles. What are the developers of alsa are thinking about that > > agreement? AFAIK drivers for ATI hardware are developed in a similar way (ATI gives specs under an NDA, the resulting driver is open

Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-09 Thread Willie Sippel
> I would really be amazed to have full Linux support for that device and > I've some programming capabilities as well. > > But I'm not sure about, wether the NDA agrees in the basic alsa > principles. What are the developers of alsa are thinking about that > agreement? Hi Hartmut. I even wanted

Re: [Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-09 Thread Hartmut Geissbauer
Hi Willie, Willie Sippel wrote: > Hi. > > As some of you may know, Creamware (http://www.creamware.de) is under > new management since 2004 - and they have changed their mind regarding > Linux support. Fine. [snipped interesting information about the SFP] I'm a user of the Creamware Noah (Ex).

[Alsa-devel] Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP

2004-03-09 Thread Willie Sippel
Hi. As some of you may know, Creamware (http://www.creamware.de) is under new management since 2004 - and they have changed their mind regarding Linux support. Porting the SFP (Noah is part of SFP) to Linux is more than writing a mere driver, 'cause of the DSP based approach... It may be difficul