From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <140e7ec30907132339w1f86bfd6x95ad41360b891249@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:00:36 -0400 Message-ID: <9ab217670907140800r6cf4a460rff1902383b9805d3@mail.gmail.com> From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1feff9e6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2009/7/14 erik quanstrom : > On Tue Jul 14 02:41:02 EDT 2009, sqweek@gmail.com wrote: >> =A0I suspect the main inhibitor there is that (as I recall) it stomps >> all over the existing soundblaster code. These days AC97 is probably >> more desirable, but it would be nice to have them coexist. > > that's going to require thinking out how ac97 can provide a strict > superset of sb. =A0as a first step, it would make sense for ac97 to > bring it's own implementation of #A to the party. > > there are other sound models, it would be nice to design ac97's > interface in such a way that it can work with other sound models. Particularly Intel HDA (which supercedes AC97 and is what all new machines are being shipped with now, essentially) and the various chipset codecs on top of that. Plenty of BSDLed code on them and plenty of documentation too. --dho > - erik > >