Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > > Colin>   I'd like to be able to get all Macs to the point
> > > Colin> where they can at least beep.  I'd really like to be
> > > Colin> able to fully support /dev/audio, but that might
> > > Colin> require a minor miracle (or a lot more staring at ROM
> > > Colin> code ;-)
> > > 
> > > Yes, it's cool.  I'd like to do 'cp somefile /dev/audio.'
> > 
> > Me too (well, I think it's 'cat somefile > /dev/audio', but either way...)
> 
> I'd love to be able to do that too. Though could y'all make sure that,
> in the end, the asc driver is compatable with the NetBSD M.I. audio stuff
> (which is basically the i386 sound stuff at the moment)? I figured y'all
> would. :-)

Oh yes, that's the plan :-)  Once I figure out exactly how the hardware
works, it should be trivial to pop the MI audio device on top of it.  It's
the complete and utter lack of documentation on the Mac sound hardware
that's the problem (unless you count "It has 2 1kB buffers..." ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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