In message <E1D3hBx-0000y9-00@smeg.dsg.stanford.edu>, Jonathan Stone writes:
>In message <Pine.OSF.4.58.0502221046340.7415@pegasus.cs.csubak.edu>,
>Dave writes:
>>
>>Is anyone still working on ALSA for NetBSD?  How far is it?  How much
>>needs to be done?
>
>
>I'm not meaing to be snotty here, but seriously: why?
>

Apart from the other reasons given, one of the mechanisms for 
supporting certain winmodems (and in particular the Thinkpad winmodems) 
uses a (huge) patch to the alsa driver.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb