Simon Jenkins wrote:
Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:14 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote:Supported how? I thought FreeBob wasn't going to support M-Audio after all.
The official statement is that there will be no support for ALSA (Linux)
FireWire drivers from RME. In other words there will be no such drivers,
as it is impossible to write them without tons of hardware and software documentation from RME. And we won't share these information with
anyone.
Regards
Matthias Carstens
RME
Meh. So we all go buy M-Audio Firewire interfaces. Looks like they will have the first supported firewire gear.
Is there something else in the works?
We would like to support the M-Audio stuff, but...
According to their statements they don't use the BeBoB firmware provided by BridgeCo (the company that produces the chipset these boxes are built upon). Apparently they have developed their own firmware. And (for the moment) they don't want to release details about this firmware. As a result there M-Audio devices won't be supported by the FreeBoB driver.
I think that the first FW pro-audio device with linux support will be the EgoSys ESI QuataFire 610. I got one from EgoSys to assist FreeBoB development, and I like it. But due to it's limited I/O it's no match for the RME Fireface or M-Audio Firewire 1814 devices. I have the impression that it's more oriented to laptop based live perfomances. But maybe the people at EgoSys are working on a larger version... The BridgeCo chipset can handle more, and they already have the knowledge. So if there is a market for an extended version, they might develop one.
Greets,
Pieter Palmers FreeBob developer
