fujitsu siemens no sound driver in sndstat

[Vaida Bogdan]

I heard (on some forum) someone tried an implementation on CURRENT...
and I am also wondering about the difficuly of porting the drivers
from netbsd...
Has anyone tried that?

On 12/21/05, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua> wrote:
>
> > for that engine, our haven't yet. Also, I don't like Intel's police
> > to license all HDA implementations, read
> >
> >       http://www.intel.com/standards/hdaudio/
> >
> >    Implementation of the High Definition Audio Specification requires a
> >    license from Intel. Contributors to the High Definition Audio
> >    Specification have signed the High Definition Audio (Azalia)
> >    Developers Agreement and have provided input to the specification
> >    under the terms outlined in that agreement. Implementers that have
> >    signed the High Definition Audio Specification (Azalia) Adopter
> >    Agreement are licensed to produce products based on the specification
> >    under a reciprocal, royalty-free license to certain intellectual
> >    property rights from Intel and other Contributors and Adopters for
> >    their products that are compliant with the licensed versions of the
> >    High Definition Audio Specification.
> >
> >  It sounds somehow restrictive, doesn't it? But NetBSD people have done it,
> > so I think FreeBSD people should be able to do it also.
>
> I haven't reread it today, but at the time I read this for the first time I
> did understand it as someone needs a license if he implements a device which
> provides this interface, it's not about software which uses this interface.
>
> But I'm not a lawyer...
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
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