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 source). Takashi, is that right? > I told Frank about the work you did on Noah support, and he was _very_ > impressed. Well, there isn't much reason to be impressed, as the Noah conforms to the USB audio specification, and the driver already implemented it. (The only reason I had to make a change to the driver was that the Noah and the driver, uh, didn't entirely agree on how to interpret a minor detail of the spec.) Tell him that NetBSD and OpenBSD have USB MIDI drivers, too. :-) Unlike the USB audio/MIDI parts, writing support for the vendor- specific parts of the Noah and for the SFP PCI cards won't be a matter of ten minutes, of course. > It should work as follows: > 1. Interested developers would sign the NDA. > 2. Those developers would get the source and specs, and tell CW what > parts need to become open to get the hardware working. Well, I would be interested in this. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
