Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Alan Cox) | | Subject | Re: GGI, EGCS/PGCC, Kernel source | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 1998 00:05:46 +0000 (GMT) |
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> The number of sound cards is enormous -> It requires kernel updates to use > new sound boards -> Let's get rid of /dev/audio and farm it out to userland > instead, hitting the hardware directly with one of the many sound server > binaries
Indeed the logic is wrong. Sound is also actually a good finger to point in terms of excessive kernelness. Sound needs some kernel stuff but it needs a serious diet and more stuff run via user space server/mixing tools
Sounds currently has all the problems the GGI/KGI split is trying to address properly for video
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