From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:09:34 -0500
> >compiler. I don't think anyone is willing to write a complete audio > >firmware in DSP assembly. So we need a free C compiler, and I only > >know of one: for the TMS320C3X series. > > the SHARC and Motorola DSP series are supported by available versions > of gcc. > > anyway, i personally think you're mad. software is truly amenable to > "community development" because the costs involved in getting started > are relatively small. this will never be true for hardware unless all > you are doing is hobbyist-type stuff that is never really there for > anyone else. i very, very much doubt that you could build a device > with the capabilities of the hammerfall for less than the cost of a > hammerfall. Taking a look on the time spend for writing open-source - all of us must be mad ;-)! So for us both buying a decent Macintosh Audio tool would be cheaper than continuing wrting GSMP or Ardour. - And we would have the program, now. The point is: This products are not open, not extendable and do not run on your favourite OS ... AND a useable DSP card is not available for Linux. So designing open-hardware (like some other started: open IP-cores, or even the F(freedom)-CPU ...) is exaclty the same: Replacing broken hardware from vendors that do not even have an interest in getting their products bug-free or running under a real OS. The costs: Starting this in universities, where all the logic-analysers, ... , are standing arround, is cheap. And also getting the DSPs, FPGAs, RAM, ... might be possible for some _research_ work. And important: This is the plasce where open-source initially started, too. The PDP-10 (or whatever) was also not standing in every-house. > --p k33p h4ck1n6 René -- René Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms.
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