Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2009/7/14 Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>:
>> However, I still think this is worthwhile just to provide (a) a
>> standard interface for audio devices (e.g., /dev/audioctl always
>> accepts the same messages to set volume, input levels, etc), and (b)
>> to have a single kernel support more than one type of audio device
>> (imagine a network where you actually have an SB16 plus a bunch of
>> AC97 devices and some of these HCI things that Devon mentioned-one 9pc
>> should be able to support them all).
>
> I was looking at audio interfaces a little lately and
> I noticed that inferno's audio device uses different
> conventions and seems to be more complete.  It might
> be worthwhile to shoot for an interface like that.

Several years ago, Kris and I were working on a mixerfs. Neither of us
were terribly familiar with digital audio at the time, and it never
ended up working entirely properly (read: multiple channels got
choppy), but if anybody is interested in the code, I still have it.

--dho

>>       - Dan C.
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