[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Garrett D'Amore]

This sounds good.

Is your topic going to be useful for folks without a background in 
audio?  I know once upon a time (a long time ago) my first attempt at 
writing a Solaris driver was for the Gravis Ultrasound.  I failed 
miserably, not least of all because I started out knowing *nothing* 
about audio in general, never-mind the Solaris specific details.

If I can write (or learn to write) audio drivers without being an audio 
systems expert, I'd probably we willing to help out.

(FWIW, I did do some development on an Au1550 SoC audio driver for 
NetBSD... but in that case it was mostly "plumbing" adding access from 
the chip to an already supported codec.)

    -- Garrett

Dev Mazumdar wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that laptop drivers, OSS, etc. are really going to be 
>> covered in technical detail, other than a presentation of slideware. 
>
> I'm planning on a pretty serious technical talk in the 1hr slot I've 
> been given. My talk will include OSS source code internals and 
> developing new drivers. I am also going to talk about porting and app 
> development.
>
> We certainly need help in developing device drivers for certain Sparc 
> machines. Perhaps someone could look into Firewire or Bluetooth audio 
> drivers.
>
> One area where we really need new device driver developed is for SoC 
> (system on chip) for embedded architectures like PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, 
> Blackfin, OMAP, if Solaris is ever going to run on these platforms.
>
> My goal is to get a bunch of TO-DOs and commitment from the community.
>
> If there's anything else that needs discussing w.r.t. audio, please 
> drop me an email.
>
>
>
> best regards
> Dev Mazumdar
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