Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:33:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > Now, question is where should it go. That winmodem uses interrupts so > > > little that it can be nicely done using polling+userspace with zero > > > performance lost. Still it is device driver. Should it go into kernel? > > > [Well, drivers/sound/modem would be cool :-)] > > Personally I prefer drivers/modem, as we may well need to include ADSL > support eventually. Then again, current sound & modem hardware is > increasingly integrated.
Yep. A variant of my motherboard's audio chip, the VIA VT82C686, includes a modem codec.
Jeff
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