fujitsu siemens no sound driver in sndstat

[Vaida Bogdan]

Seems it's only a matter of porting azalia to freebsd:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-hda

Anyone into kernel programming?

On 12/21/05, Vaida Bogdan <vaida.bogdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> > It's OBVIOUS ... The FURS never reached ISTANBUL ... You were an EXTRA
> > in the REMAKE of "TOPKAPI" ... Go home to your WIFE ... She's making
> > FRENCH TOAST!
> >
> >
> >
>