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Paul Smedley:
Hi Sigurd


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--- Quote from: Paul Smedley on October 26, 2014, 01:47:05 am ---My slides + audio are now on youtube - http://youtu.be/Vw6bhDH8Oig

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thanks, listened to it the last night - it is really great to get so much bakcground information.

Because of my english knowledge I was not able to understand the plans/Problems with UNIAUD in the of your Video. As I am playing aorund with the Sony Vaio Pro 13 with Intel HDA Audio - what do you think - is there a Chance to get an updated UNIAUD in general?

Thanks again and keep going your excellent work!

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I have no specific plans any time soon to work on Uniaud. My comments in the presentation were just to warn that maintenance is getting more difficult due to:
a) The use of Open Watcom on OS/2 vs GCC on *nix - The ALSA code uses some gcc extensions which don't work in OW so necessitate source changes
b) The fact that the ALSA code is no longer available as a standalone download, it's now part of the kernel source.

Hope this helps clarify. I hadn't really planned to talk about future plans for Uniaud, but one thing lead to another whilst I was talking :)

Cheers,

Paul

Martin Iturbide:

--- Quote from: Sigurd Fastenrath on October 26, 2014, 12:52:07 pm ---... is there a Chance to get an updated UNIAUD in general?

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Hi Sigurd.

If I'm recalling correctly David Azarewicz (from Arca Noae) made several announcement of his progress with several drivers.  I need to sit down and try to organize the information in a better way.

But about to UNIAUD, he told that needs to clean the source code of it. His goal is to make it in a way that it will be easy on the future to add portions of code of newer devices fast (this is what I understood) to make a driver that can be easily updated.   He said that it is 20% complete, but he can not say exactly when it is going to have it complete. His priorities is to have something but he had been working on the network drivers first USB and ACPI. So, it will be a longer while for he to update Uniaud.

He also said that a new ACPI will be released in days, when the Arca Noae site/shop get ready.

Warning: This is what I understood from his conference via Skype.

Regards

Paul Smedley:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on October 27, 2014, 02:31:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Sigurd Fastenrath on October 26, 2014, 12:52:07 pm ---... is there a Chance to get an updated UNIAUD in general?

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But about to UNIAUD, he told that needs to clean the source code of it. His goal is to make it in a way that it will be easy on the future to add portions of code of newer devices fast (this is what I understood) to make a driver that can be easily updated.   He said that it is 20% complete, but he can not say exactly when it is going to have it complete.

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I'll be very interested to see how this progresses. There are definite opportunities to share code on the linux api implementation side of things between multimac and uniaud, however my personal opinion (happy to be wrong) is that the alsa core is not so trivial to update.

I think there are also some opportunities in uniaud16 (which implements the mmpm interface)

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