Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:50:29 -0500 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: ABI coupling to hypervisors via CONFIG_PARAVIRT |
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On 3/9/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > I think the sound example to the right really shows it. /dev/dsp has a > consistent ABI on a ton of systems. The API below it, varies. Linux got > file_operations and ALSA. Solaris/BSD may have its > vnode-and-so-on-functions and some sort of OSS.
I think this is a poor example as applications lose a lot of functionality (multiple stream mixing, software volume control, etc) by going through the legacy /dev/dsp interface vs. using native ALSA.
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