Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALSA vs OSS/free
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 19:44:24 EET
>An "advantage" of OSS (not the free one) is that ther is e.g. e driver for sol
>aris.
>
>For ALSA there is IMHO none. BTW does anyone know how difficult (work-intensiv
>e) it
>would be to port the ALSA API (user-space lib) using the solaris /dev/audio, /
>dev/audioctl ?
from a pure code perspective, alsa-lib could probably be ported to
Solaris in a day or two, perhaps less. the problem is that it requires
functionality from the kernel driver that may not be present for the
Solaris /dev/audio* stuff. OTOH, abramo has joked (quite seriously)
that it might be possible to have alsa-lib support OSS, in which case
your problem would be solved.
however, who would bother to do the work?
--p
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