Subject: Re: PCMCIA sound card, yet again...
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/18/2001 22:39:54
On 18 Jan 2001, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org> writes:
>
> > Will the ESS 1688 work without a DMA channel?
>
> (finally got around to looking at my manuals) It can. There is a
> programmed I/O mode in this series of chips (you end up writing
> 128-byte blocks at a time), but it is a bit more CPU intensive and our
> driver doesn't currently support it.

Anybody willing to hack up support for it? I'll more than gladly test it
out for them :-)

Jared