From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUfGg-0004Ia-8Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:00:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9Q6wSeJ031530; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:58:28 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (66-191-187-123.dhcp.gnvl.sc.charter.com [66.191.187.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9Q6rjPc031022 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:53:45 GMT Received: from vertigo.twi-31o2.org (vertigo.twi-31o2.org [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1998F24801F for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:23:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible virtual/alsa change From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <435D38E6.50200@gentoo.org> References: <1129573517.8881.183.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <200510172042.45438@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200510172108.55137.jkt@gentoo.org> <435CBC83.8060102@gentoo.org> <1130159467.9045.8.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CDF1E.2000305@gentoo.org> <1130160615.9045.17.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CE7F4.1000109@gentoo.org> <1130165647.9045.21.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435CF7A7.3030603@gentoo.org> <1130167272.9045.24.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <435D38E6.50200@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7fVxAcWhskRIlh0khyam" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:22:38 -0400 Message-Id: <1130206958.16022.3.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 563d2583-10eb-47f7-ad63-ab52c52f9306 X-Archives-Hash: 2cf835cd2b1adbd2c945ccef1c7bfca2 --=-7fVxAcWhskRIlh0khyam Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:41 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:03 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >=20 > >>>What would be your recommendation on how to handle this for mips, then= ? > >>>Make the virtual alsa-driver? > >> > >>This wouldn't work, as none of our alsa drivers are actually provided b= y=20 > >>alsa-driver. > >=20 > >=20 > > OK. How does it work now, then? > >=20 > > ...and please provide me with any information that you think I might > > need or even a suggestion on what you want. This having to email back > > and forth is tiresome. > >=20 >=20 > If you are so concerned with getting this issue hammered out without=20 > more than one email, you should have just pinged one of us on irc.=20 > What's wrong with having an ongoing discussion on a mailing list where=20 > anybody might be able to chip in to the conversation? My point was really that if you know pertinent information, why make someone ask for it over and over again. > Currently, we have two machines with alsa drivers (only one of which=20 > *really* works, but that is beside the point), and the working driver is=20 > applied to our mips-sources-2.6.* ebuilds along with the patchset for=20 > octane. However, this information is pretty irrelevent from my point of=20 > view. The real problems are that A) alsa-driver doesn't contain any=20 > mips drivers, B) 2.4 kernel sources do not contain the alsa drivers=20 > while 2.6 do, and C) that mips-sources included both 2.4 and 2.6.=20 > Therefore, we really do not have anything generic that can be changed to=20 > the default virtual for us without being broken (until such time as we=20 > can finally get rid of 2.4). I don't have a solution at this point in=20 > time either...I'm just saying how things are. This is exactly the kind of information that I was looking for when I asked. Thank you. As I understand it, the only working ALSA driver that you have it part of mips-sources. It would make sense to me for that to be the default virtual, as it would work for at least some people, versus the current situation where it works for none. > Unfortunately, we don't have any member of the mips team that really=20 > does much with sound (where did that Indy go to anyway?), so I'm not=20 > sure any of us are going to be able to give you a satisfying answer or=20 > solution. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-7fVxAcWhskRIlh0khyam Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDXZbukT4lNIS36YERAt9+AKCL+rvaGo5ytJiV93R2giJfJ0ed1QCcD2Hp MZgD94sr2NpLfJ1+yooIxRo= =keXW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7fVxAcWhskRIlh0khyam-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list