just like midi/seq was treated? (was Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history)

[Mathew Kanner]

On Jun 30, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
> On 30-Jun-2004 Taku YAMAMOTO wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:37:47 -0400
> > Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> >> 
> >>      RE: MIDI.
> >> 
> >>      The annoucement was made many months ago with no response.
> >> Also, MIDI didn't work...  At all.  Having it in the tree was
> >> confusing users who were trying to use it.  Also, I've posted
> >> patches for the current MIDI work many times.  
> >>      Per the annoucment, we are planning to import it soon but I'm
> >> very busy with moving and other crisis in my life and Seigo has had
> >> his own problems.
> > 
> > I have been looking forward very much to seeing it, as I'm planning
> > to port the NetBSD's USB-MIDI class driver to the new framework.
> 
> What about serial MIDI?  Wasn't that supposedly included in the system
> at one time?  Did it ever work for anyone?  I'm especially anxious to
> know if this will be included or not, as I don't have a MIDI interface
> on this new AMD64 machine, but could use the serial port if that's an
> option.

	Seigo is very interested in serial-midi.  It supposedly worked
in them midi2 but I remeber reading that in general it's hard to do
serial midi because of different timing (baud?) rates.

	--Mat

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