Subject: Re: Proposal: porting ALSA to NetBSD.
To: Andrew Nesbit <alnesbit@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/27/2002 10:50:10
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 10:47, Andrew Nesbit wrote:

> Yes, that's what I was thinking too, but later down the track.  I was
> thinking that it might be a good starting point to port it as a set of
> LKMs, kind of a proof of concept or reference implementation, and then
> reimplement the API and drivers, etc under BSD license and merge it
> directly into the kernel source tree.  The API is still yet to
> stabilise, anyway.

I really don't think there is any need to replace our existing drivers,
especially since (IMHO) most of them are better than their ALSA
equivalents, and have the added bonus of being under a reasonable
license.

Jared