Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:10:09 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal |
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:13:14PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:56:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > Well, we keep the compatibility exactly -- OSS drivers don't support > > > > > > software mixing in the kernel, too :) > > > > > > > > > > OSS will support software mixing. In kernel. On NetBSD. > > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4388 > > > > > > > > Why do we need to keep the compatibility with NetBSD? > > > > > > > Software mixing is a really nice feature for people with soundscards > > > that can't do hardware mixing, so if the OSS compatibility could > > > transparently do software mixing for apps using OSS api that would be > > > a very nice extension for a lot of people - I'd say that if NetBSD do > > > that they've got the right idea. > > > > The OSS compatibility in ALSA is only a legacy API for applications not > > yet converted to use the ALSA API. > > OSS is universal cross-unix API. ALSA is Linux-only.
How "universal cross-unix" is the OSS API really?
Which operating systems besides Linux have a native sound system supporting the OSS API [1]?
I know about FreeBSD and partial support in NetBSD.
Are there any other [2]?
cu Adrian
[1] I'm not talking about a port of the commercial OSS to the operating system which has little value for application developers. [2] This is not a rhetorical question, I simply don't know about any other.
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