On Jan 9, 2008 4:10 PM, Deanna Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Schleifer writes: > > > Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> that would require kernel level ALSA emulation, just as we > >> have kernel level OSS emulation for linux binaries using OSS. > >> I have absolutely no interest in that whatsoever. you'd have > >> better luck convincing Adobe to make an OpenBSD native > >> version of their plugin. > > > > That wouldn't be required if we have a different alsa-lib than > > normal linux systems have. It's possible that compiling > > libsalsa for Linux and using in with compat_linux is already > > enough. > > Alsa is really, really not important to us. In the past few > years of working on OpenBSD ports I have only run across one > open source application that required alsa, and I took that as a > sign that the app wasn't worth having anyway. Should a worthy > alsa-only *open source* app appear, I'm sure that someone could > port it to Sun audio. There is already a lot of code in the > ports tree that does this to provide better support than the OSS > 3.x- emulation we have now. > > But for Linux binary emulation? No way. If you want that, run > Linux. What kind of people run Linux binaries on OpenBSD, > anyway? Don't give me that "I need Flash", since I spent months > of my life working on Gnash for OpenBSD just so you wouldn't > have to use the Adobe Linux binary.. and more months working on > PJSIP so that you wouldn't have to use Skype.
You're working on PJSIP?!?!! SWEEET I'm going to love you forever .... :) (makes me wish i could code so i could help you out) > > > If this interest in alsa is just general multimedia envy and not > some specific need for alsa support, you might find this article > in Hannu's blog interesting. He details the history of the two > and makes a good case for adopting OSS instead. > > http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5
