Ignacio Marambio Cat?n wrote:
> you probably already answered this, but how is this related to the
> 4front front tech OSS integration? isnt this overlapping what they are
> doing?
>
I am the technical lead at Sun for the integration of OSS technology
into Solaris. There is overlap, but it is intentional, and not a
duplicate effort.
We are working hard on the project to bring OSS technology into Solaris,
but are still some ways (probably about a month or so) away from having
a prototype suitable for public testing. (For reasons I won't get into
here, we felt that the OSS core had some significant limitations --
which don't affect *most* people -- but which made it unacceptable for
integration into Solaris as-is. Therefore we (Sun) have rearchitected
some significant portions of the code to provide a solution that is
superior to both the existing Sun and 4Front technology, and leverages
the best portions of code from both companies. A lot more detail will
be presented in the PSARC case when we bring it to inception next month.)
The audiohd driver that the Sun team is working on will be adapted to
the resulting OSS framework. We believe that the codec parser work done
by the Beijing team is superior to the 4Front version of the driver in
some significant ways, so it is likely that even after the integration
of the new framework, the new audiohd driver will be derived from Sun's
code rather than 4Front's. (Put another way, for this particular device
driver, we believe that the improved Sun baseline is a stronger
foundation to build upon than the 4Front driver.)
For other drivers, the opposite is true. For example, many new chips
(SoundBlaster Live! and XFi for example) are only supported by the
4Front drivers, so we'll be leveraging their code. And in some cases
there are other advantages to the 4Front code. For example, in our
project we're using an audioens which is a port from 4Front's apci97
driver -- this gives the ability to open-source the audioens driver,
and the driver is also considerably simpler than the legacy Sun driver.
(And in this case simplicity is a good thing.)
-- Garrett
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