On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:44:24 -0500 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >An "advantage" of OSS (not the free one) is that ther is e.g. e driver for sol > >aris. > > > >For ALSA there is IMHO none. BTW does anyone know how difficult (work-intensiv > >e) it > >would be to port the ALSA API (user-space lib) using the solaris /dev/audio, / > >dev/audioctl ? > > from a pure code perspective, alsa-lib could probably be ported to > Solaris in a day or two, perhaps less. the problem is that it requires > functionality from the kernel driver that may not be present for the > Solaris /dev/audio* stuff. OTOH, abramo has joked (quite seriously) > that it might be possible to have alsa-lib support OSS, in which case > your problem would be solved. heh. Imagine they _did_ port it.. we'd have to come up with a new word to replace the "Linux" in ALSA... ;-) But seriously, i've always thought it was a shame ALSA is tied to one platform. I mean sure, i only use linux, but i still like the idea of any apps i write working under many posix-like systems... Ive wondered how hard it would be to port the kernel-level stuff to another platform (don't shout! ive not done driver programming!) > however, who would bother to do the work? quite. especially since linux is capturing most of the unix market share (esp. on the desktop). ALSA on MacOS X anyone? or dare i say Win**? :-O nick
