FreeBSD MIDI (Was: Re: What happened to the "d_maj" member of "struct cdevsw" in CURRENT?)

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:42:10 -0400 (EDT), Andre Guibert de Bruet
<andy at siliconlandmark.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
> > It looks like MIDI is really starting to come together, though.  I
> > now have a loadable kernel module "midi.ko", with support for cmi
> > and emu10k1 cards.  I've already seen a report from someone on the
> > multimedia list who actually got this to work with his card
> > and external MIDI synth.  Hopefully, we can get support for more
> > cards included soon. :-)
> >
> > We'll keep the current list informed as to further developments.
> 
> I would love to get my Yamaha synth working with FreeBSD! What state
> are  these patches in? Is this something that we could expect for
> 6.0-rel?

Well, I haven't been able to actually run the driver through any tests,
yet, as my soundcard is not (yet) one of the supported ones.  But it
does compile OK, and as I mentioned before, I know of at least one
person who reported successful MIDI playback via his external MIDI synth
keyboard.

I'm hoping Mat will be able to add es137x support soon, so I can
actually see how well this thing will work.  I'm fairly optimistic at
this point; it's just a matter of copying/adapting the patches for other
cards into the es137x files.

I couldn't tell you for sure which FreeBSD release will be the one to
announce the addition of MIDI, but I do think 6.0 could very well
possibly be it, with additional backpatching into 5.x-STABLE as well.

By the way, what kind of Yamaha synth do you have?  Mine is an SO3.  I
can hardly wait to be able to use it under FreeBSD!

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"