On 4/29/06, Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.apr.sechs@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the other day I was reminded that more and more software wants or needs
> ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sounc Architecture.
> I remember some discussions on tech-kern (2002-03 / 2005-02 according to
> mail-index.NetBSD.org) about an ALSA-compatibility layer for NetBSD but
> I do not know whether anything came out of this.

And what about video4linux?  I guess this is much more difficult, but I do =
not
really know and it can be added to the list anyway.

> Could this (or a suitable part of it) be a Summer-of-Code project
> for a student interested in audio? Laying the groundwork (research of
> different approaches, identifying possible problems with existing NetBSD
> architecture, more or less detailed roadmap how to do it) is possibly
> enough if the whole project is too difficult for a period of two months.

This year, it is a period of three full months :-)

Cheers,

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