FreeBSD amd64 GENERIC kernel

[blubee blubeeme]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:53:04 +0100 Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
> wrote:
> > On 12/19/17 13:57, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> >> That still leaves my last question unanswered, where does one start
> >> if they want to program audio applications on FreeBSD?
> >
> > You should start by looking at existing OSSv4 compatible audio
> > applications already in FreeBSD ports and in FreeBSD base and compare
> > how they use the OSSv4 interface(s).
>
> This recent commit suggests that some of the mixer related ioctls are
> missing: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/456640
>
so, this commit message: https://github.com/Maato/volumeicon/pull/70

Why not start from what 4Front OSS provides and then add the features that
are missing,
instead of re-implementing everything that 4Front provides?