Subject: Re: auich in -current/i386
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/28/2001 23:35:28
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:23PM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> # The issue is that the auich actually violates the AC97 spec by not
> # including a sample rate converter onboard.  Normally it's paired with
> # an AC97 codec that supports the variable rate extension.  I'm pretty
> # sure that the AD1881 codec supports variable rate, in some fashion,
> # based on past discussions with one of the designers -- but it may do so
> # in a non-standard way, or it may not report that it does.
> 
> i.e. "It's broken and it's not our fault."

Oh, I wouldn't even say that.  Certainly it's a wacky, non-standard
design, but we *should* support it.  I don't have such a system to look
at it, though.