Re: apple hardware docs.
On Nov Fri 14 2003 21:16, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > In any case, what is extremely ridiculous is that for many "stupid"
> > things like fans, thermal control or microphone/sound, they have *nix
> > stuff programmed, BUT they still don't release it under the GPL, so you
> > need a really good bunch of gurus to hack the stuff up.
>
> Actually, the complete source code of Apple sound drivers is
> open sourced in Darwin.
>
> Our driver is a mess, mostly because of the bazillions different setups
> of the sound chips on apple motherboards that we try to all driver from
> a single driver, and because of history too :)
>
> Several people proposed to take over the driver in the past couple of
> years, but so far, all of them sort of vanished after hacking a bit on
> it, I suppose hacking this driver is a good way to get quickly sick of
> programming :)
>
> Currently, dmasound is maintained "by default" by Christoph Hellwig. I
> suspect he doesn't have much time to dedicate to it though.
>
> I personally don't have the time & dedication necessary to do the
> necessary complete rewrite of it. Alsa could be a good alternative,
> though it seems to still have a fair amount of problems on some
> machine models.
Thanks for the info, Benjamin. I will take that dmasound sickness into
account to get away of exams, appointments, etc 8-) "Naaah, really, I
just hacked the dmasound driver for the powerbooks, and I am feeling a
bit weird..." :)))
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J. Javier Maestro
<jjmaestro@computer.org>
http://rigel.homelinux.com
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