Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA
From: Jean-Daniel PAUGET (jd_AT_disjunkt.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 13:57:29 EET
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
> >suck. I can't say enough good things about the Delta series, but of
> >course if you want a pro-audio solution for a laptop under Linux you're
> >still SOL at this point.
>
> for those who haven't seen my announcement on alsa-devel: work will
> begin on the ALSA driver for the Hammerfall DSP around the end of this
> month (when RME ships the h/w to me). Work on the PCMCIA version will
> follow once another h/w revision is completed by RME, and they send me
> the h/w to work with.
>
> while we're here, it occured to me to switch my own driver development
> to a pseudo-shareware model. the work will be done regardless, so this
> is not holding a gun to anyone's head. however, if you think you'll
> use a Hammerfall DSP and/or think its a good or even great thing for
> Linux to be able to use hardware like this, you could consider making
> a small donation (even $5 would be welcome) via my paypal account.
>
> this is not to underestimate the excellent work that many people
> (including myself) have done and continue to do for free. however, the
> timeline before Mac OS X and XP become clearly adequate for high
> quality audio work is shrinking rapidly; if we are to stand any chance
> of getting companies interested in supporting their products under
> linux, work like this needs to happen ASAP, and financial support for
> this (like SuSE's employing Jaroslav (and Abramo, for a while) makes
> it easier.
>
> --p
>
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