On Thursday January 30 2003 07:29 am, Paul Davis wrote: > >I am asking this, as the ALSA OSS compat. seems to be getting depreaciated > > (I dont blame it), and stuck on rc1. > > its not deprecated, though many of us would actively discourage anyone > from writing new applications that use the OSS API. its very important > for ALSA that it fully and properly supports the OSS API. if it did > not, it would have been very hard to get linus to accept ALSA as the > default/standard audio API in the 2.5/2.6 kernel series. > > --p > > ps. of course, some of us would discourage people from using ALSA > as the API too :)))
Well, the reason I asked, is that I am involved with porting Helix stuff to arm linux. And someone pointed out yeasterday, that there was no OSS compat for his soundcard. So, since I am waiting for stuff to get working again in respect to gcc 2.95, I took it upon myself (thinking this was almost trival to change a few fucntions from OSS to ALSA) to write some ALSA native device functions to give users a choice. This is my first time really digging into ALSA API, and I must say, I like what I see. :D And instead of bothering people with silly questions, 'how do I perform x OSS function", I went looking at the docs. The tutroials are very good, but don't touch upon some of the more compilcated aspects. It seems maybe there is a glossary or something needed for people more familiar with OSS terminology. Such as, whats a poll ? The docs state, in a not very clear way, for example, for snd_timer_poll_descriptors, 'gets poll descriptors'.. hmm, ok, whats a poll descriptor? :D Although I am thankful for the docs, I think it might be useful to have a one page doc outlining the OSS calls.. thanks- ljp -- My cat's a debugger.... Potter, Lorn, "ljp" core member / Web Administrator Project OPIE- the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment http://opie.handhelds.org IRC: irc.freenode.net #opie #opie.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
