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 1EU8GV-0002un-RY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:45:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9OJj8xm027313; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:45:08 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9OJfiBk024831 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:41:45 GMT Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9OJfiZM001236 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:41:44 -0400 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id EMH03341; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <435D38E6.50200@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:41:26 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051004) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Possible virtual/alsa change 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> In-Reply-To: <1130167272.9045.24.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30ef682a-64fc-48f7-b0b7-253e35b7fae7 X-Archives-Hash: 1c0308d20322f56d47a167cdcd6ee56f Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:03 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >>>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 by >>alsa-driver. > > > OK. How does it work now, then? > > ...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. > If you are so concerned with getting this issue hammered out without more than one email, you should have just pinged one of us on irc. What's wrong with having an ongoing discussion on a mailing list where anybody might be able to chip in to the conversation? Currently, we have two machines with alsa drivers (only one of which *really* works, but that is beside the point), and the working driver is applied to our mips-sources-2.6.* ebuilds along with the patchset for octane. However, this information is pretty irrelevent from my point of view. The real problems are that A) alsa-driver doesn't contain any mips drivers, B) 2.4 kernel sources do not contain the alsa drivers while 2.6 do, and C) that mips-sources included both 2.4 and 2.6. Therefore, we really do not have anything generic that can be changed to the default virtual for us without being broken (until such time as we can finally get rid of 2.4). I don't have a solution at this point in time either...I'm just saying how things are. Unfortunately, we don't have any member of the mips team that really does much with sound (where did that Indy go to anyway?), so I'm not sure any of us are going to be able to give you a satisfying answer or solution. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list