[vorbis-dev] Re: Patches for NetBSD

[Segher Boessenkool]

> I suggest not to bother with autoconf snippets for -lossaudio,
> /dev/sound, and /usr/include/soundcard.h.  The proper solution is
> to write a module for the native sound driver instead of going
> through OSS emulation.  In fact, I have one sitting on my disk that
> should work for NetBSD/OpenBSD (which share the same sound system)
> and possibly Solaris, too.  (The API originated on SunOS.)

Good. Please submit.

> I notice that there's an ao_solaris module in CVS.  This looks a
> lot like what I have, except that it drops all the sanity checks
> ao_oss has (i.e. whether channels is 1 or 2 and bits 8 or 16).  Do
> we want those checks?

This is library code, so we want all checks we could possibly need.
It is important to check whether the hardware supports the format
we want to feed it...

Cheers,

Segher

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