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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] AC'97
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:16:32 -0400
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> Aki has a driver on 9grid.net that works for my chipset.

That looks like very professional code.  We've wanted AC '97
support for a while, so any way we end up with it is good for
the community.  I hope Aki Nyrhinen chooses to contribute this
work.  If so, it looks as if the students here could contribute
rate-scaling code for codecs with bad clocks, which seem to be
common.

As for the wasted-effort issue... I've been wary about
pre-announcing student projects for a couple of reasons:

1. They don't all pan out, so I'm not sure it would make
sense to set up "leases" on unfilled holes in the code
base--for six-month chunks of time.

2. I think student projects benefit from not getting lots
of "Is it ready yet?  Can I help?" mail.

Anyway, it looks like both the educational mission at CMU and
the driver-development mission of the community have been
served.  I'm open to suggestions about how to possibly improve
coordination... but meanwhile it's hard to argue with progress!

Dave Eckhardt