Re: Mac mini sound woes

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-03-30, at 01:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 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.

You are joking? Linux IS NOT an RT OS. And well not too long ago you 
could
be jailed for example in germany for using not well behaving 
communication devices.

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