Re: pcmaudio(4), for fun and games.

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:10 AM, Antti Kantee wrote:

> On Fri Sep 19 2008 at 16:09:49 +0530, Cherry G. Mathew wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Announcing the pcmaudio(4) driver, for all geeks with lots of PWM,
> > lots of time, lots of boredome and nothing else to do.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cherry/pcmaudio
> >
> > Its basically been an exercise in writing a device driver for NetBSD,
> > and has only been tested with mplayer and xine.
> >
> > BUGS
> > plaympeg (libSDL) doesn't seem to work for some reason.
> > PWM translation seems to have some sort of bug, when the volume  
> > drops,
> > sound gets scratchy. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in  
> > clock.c
> >
> > I've tried to organise the code to be as little intrusive as  
> > possible,
> > however, it does touch x86/isa/clock.c, pcppi(4) and attimer(4), so
> > here's what I'm asking anyone with the inclination to try:
> >
> > Could you run it on a slower machine (i386/486 etc) and see if it
> > works at all ? Also, if you disabled it, does it affect anything else
> > ?
> >
> > I don't expect to commit this anytime soon, unless someone absolutely
> > needs this in the tree :-)
>
> If it a) works b) doesn't break anything c) could be remotely useful
> for someone, why not develop it in the tree?

Yeah, I'm sure it will have more users than some of my drivers ;)
( Fujitsu AG-10e anyone? )

have fun
Michael

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