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SubjectRe: I have information/driver source for winmodem's (no Joke)
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk  (Alan Cox) writes:

> > And if available kernel interfaces are not enough, a patch in source form
> > that provides the needed interfaces will do the trick.
>
> Probably only if accepted into the mainstream code.
>
> I really doubt you want to run a softmodem in kernel space anyway. Its
> MMX and float heavy, its large (they tend to be 200K+ code) and potentially
> at that size and for what it has to do very buggy (yes you _can_ have
> buffer overruns in soft modems 8)).

I would guess that on the DSP modems a good fraction of the 200K
is the firmware for the DSP that is uploaded. Doing v.42bis in
kernel shouldn't be that complicated nor time critical, and AT
emulation is ugly but easy, as proved in drivers/isdn/isdn_tty.c

-Andi


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