Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:45:32 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: You question about drivers for Linux |
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Can someone knoweldgable please, please, go work for them? :)
All we need is a popular hardware vendor introducing shared libs into the kernel :)..
Having windows drivers coders doing Linux kernel code scares me. :)
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jacob Hawley wrote:
> Creative intends to put out two equally important pieces for the Linux > community. > > 1) An OSS Binary driver that can be used in the next few months from a company > called 4Front. This will allow Linux users to begin using their SB-Lives > immediately, while Creative becomes more familiar with Linux. This solves the > immediate issue of a SB-Live working on Linux. > > 2) Longer term we will produce a library(.LIB) that can be linked into ALSA, > OSS, or what ever. This library will expose the features of the chip and will > allow for additional functionality to be added. I suspect this is what most > people are actually asking for. In addition, we will write some form of > programmers reference guide to the chip so that anyone not interested in using > the library can program their own driver. We will likely put this out as a SDK, > which will include some sample source code for initializing the chip. > > The timing on item #1 is as soon as possible (probably in the next few months), > and the timing on item #2 is probably 6-9 months, depending on how long it takes > me to hire engineers that are proficient at Linux & audio. > > I have added myself to this reflector so please feel free to contact me through > that or through jacob_hawley@msn.com > > Jacob Hawley > Sr. Manager, Custom Engineering > Creative Labs, Inc. > www.soundblaster.com > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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