recs for TOSLINK stable/10 PCI audio card

[Russell L. Carter]

On 06/16/16 20:21, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am deleting an otherwise working fine linux server from my home
> multimedia setup, and replacing it with a stable/10 box.  I would
> appreciate recommendations for a decent TOSLINK output PCI audio card
> that is compatible with stable/10.  The current linux box has a Xonar
> DG working great, but this is apparently not supported in stable/10 (I
> do see https://github.com/shamazmazum/xonar-dragonfly, which alas has
> no xonar_dg mention).  (Any ideas why at least the initial xonar
> support has not been merged?  I hate to spend time spelunking the
> working fine linux driver if there is something else going on.)

So digging through the offerings on newegg, I am not seeing anything
obvious that provides a TOSLINK connector and is *not* C-Media.  Anybody
know different?  Hoping... hoping...

OTOH, the linux driver sure seems well written:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/sound/pci/oxygen

Is a clean room (re)implementation really required to avoid the license
issue?

Thanks,
Russell