Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:21:29 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:26:03AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > >> Anyways, the thing is that unlike what was originally expected, dropping > >> an major programming API doesn't really work too well even after six > >> years of trying. > > > > Good ALSA emulation was a hot topic a few years ago when popular > > software like Flash and Skype didn't support ALSA, but the use > > cases are becoming rare. > > > > 2 out of your 3 examples above were software where native ALSA works, > > but your distributions seems to ship you a setup where you thought > > OSS emulation was required. > > Yeah, that's why I agree it's a bit too late but still better late than > never. There are just some programs, be it commercial or ancient, which > don't work quite as well as it could. Requiring update to ALSA took > painfully long years and we're still not in the clear yet. Now should > we ask people to update to PA? >...
Doesn't PA already emulate ALSA?
> ossp is simply a better way to support /dev/dsp on modern systems and > bulk of it lives in userland (and I hope this can be the case for future > deprecations too). If for nothing else, it'll enable us to do away with > three different emulations at the very least. I mean we can't of course > do away with padsp and then some still only work with aoss and then we > need in-kernel ALSA OSS emulation as the final fallback when both fail. > It's a big mess and ossp can basically OSS emulation as good as > in-kernel ALSA OSS w/ muxing.
The in-kernel OSS emulation also support OSS MIDI.
> Thanks. > tejun
cu Adrian
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