On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:49 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > You are "aiming too low". > > The true answers are: > > 1) drivers running in user space;
Agreed. This would help many things. For example it would solve the binary only driver issue - vendors that feel the need to develop closed drivers could do so without violating the GPL. Of course it will probably hurt performance some. > 2) stable, documented and adhered to ABI, so a driver compiled > once by anybody for i386 (the biggest common denominator for > IA31/IA64, AMD/Intel) will run as binary image with any kernel of any > IA31/IA64 distribution. > Not going to happen until 1) is solved. Anyway I don't think either of these will help with the main problem faving ALSA drivers today - vendors do not bother to test their hardware with Linux or contribute patches to make it work. Some of them even claim to support Linux like BenQ - I have heard that some peoples BenQ laptops came with a Linux CD, but sound does not work on any BenQ laptop due to an unsupported codec! They clearly did not even test it. Lee _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
