Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:57:02 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] OSS driver removal, 2nd round (v2) |
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0200, Adam Tlałka wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:18:19 -0400 > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 01:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes: > > > > > > > > Q: What about the OSS emulation in ALSA? > > > > A: The OSS emulation in ALSA is not affected by my patches > > > > (and it's not in any way scheduled for removal). > > > > > > I again object to removing the old ICH sound driver. > > > It does the same as the Alsa driver in much less code and is ideal > > > for generic monolithic kernels > > > > It doesn't do the same thing - software mixing is impossible with OSS. > > Only GPL'ed version has this limitation - its just not implemented because all this > GPL'ed OSS is abandoned. > The commercial version from www.opensound.com does input/output mixing > in software in kernel space. >...
When we are talking about OSS, we are talking about what is under sound/oss/ in the kernel sources.
The commercial OSS might be much better, but it's not relevant since it's not GPL'ed and therefore not a candidate for inclusion into the kernel.
As you said yourself, the "GPL'ed OSS is abandoned". And ALSA is it's successor in the kernel.
cu Adrian
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