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SubjectRe: ABI coupling to hypervisors via CONFIG_PARAVIRT
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.

Lee
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