On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 05:04:49PM +0300, Tanel Kriik wrote: > Hi, total newbie here: > > I have intermediate C experience from work and free time, > and use OpenBSD more or less often. > I'm familiar with the OpenBSD coding style and have compiled the > kernel a few times, > but I haven't dabbled deeper than that. > > Areas I'm surely lacking in: > > * Audio processing (only know the basics of DSP) > * Drivers > * OpenBSD development workflow (modify, compile, test cycle - how do you do > it?) > > I guess I'd need to at least get to know the azalia(4) driver and how > it interfaces with > lower-level drivers in the system? > > On the other hand, if it was easy, then someone would've already done it? > > I'd like to hear from more experienced people here if this would be at least > realistically doable by someone at my level. > Has this been attempted before but stopped due to some inherent obstacles? > > I browsed azalia.c and found that for some reason HDMI codecs are disabled, > but I don't remember seeing an exact explanation as to why it was done from > the > CVS logs (might have overlooked something though). Does it have something > to do with the internal mixers in graphics cards or something similar? > > Thanks >
The hdmi codecs were disabled in azalia as non working audio devices would attach as audio0 with the real audio device attaching as audio1. This meant symlinks in /dev had to change or programs had to explicitly use /dev/audio1 etc instead of /dev/audio.
