Re: Mac mini sound woes

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:25 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems.
> 
> My main issue with winmodems is not so much the software offload, but 
> rather that the vendors don't release full specs.
> 
> If all winmodem manufacturers released full hardware specs, I doubt 
> people would really complain all that much.  There's a fairly large pool 
> of talent available to write drivers once the interfaces are known.

Look at the pile of junk that are most winmodem driver implementations,
nothing I want to see in the kernel ever. Those things should be in
userland.

Ben.


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