OSS Audio

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 4 16:26:20 UTC 2017


blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I'm looking at the information for audio/oss and it seems that the source
>> > used is different than the 4frontversion.
>> >
>> > -----
>> >
>> > This port uses installation procedure that is very different from
>> > the one used by 4Front and is not supported by them.
>> >
>> > -----
>> >
>> > The port also seems to lack a maintainer but a lot of work is being
>> > committed by  jbeich at FreeBSD.org, mat at FreeBSD.org and a few others.
>>
>> Well, you've answered your own question. There's no maintainer to check
>> which downstream differences still make sense.
>>
>> What is better maintained[1] and supported is FreeBSD fork of OSS -
>> sound(4).
>> See OSSv4 compatibility in https://people.freebsd.org/~
>> ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html
>> Not sure why those bits haven't migrated into the manpage.
>>
>> [1] 4Front vs. FreeBSD commit activity:
>>     https://sourceforge.net/p/opensound/git/ci/master/log/
>>     https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/sound/?view=log
>>
> Thanks for the heads up, I am still learning my way around so I might ask
> questions that don't seem to make sense sometimes.
>
> Since there is no maintainer and the FreeBSD OSS is a fork [I'd assume] of
> an earlier version, wouldn't it be wise to port over the new OSS 4.xx since
> this page: http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/ossapi.html
> lists a lot of benefits for the new 4.xx version.

Why? Not much of 4Front code is left[1] in FreeBSD implementation and
OSSv4 API is already supported.

Please, be more specific what exactly you're missing.

[1] See https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound and copyrights under sys/dev/sound


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