Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	perex@suse.cz
Subject: Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:46:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D05D0C.1030900@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ek34vucz.fsf@defiant.localdomain>

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

>> SOUND_ADLIB
> 
> IIRC 8-bit sound, ISA. GUS on DOS used to emulate it

Extremely classic card. Would be fun to still have around if only for 
history's sake...

>> SOUND_PAS
> 
> Pro Audio Spectrum. Earlier than GUS? 8-bit I think

Also drives my PAS16s. Yes, it's very old -- non-pnp ISA and all that. 
Used to be a fairly popular card at the time though (since it sounds 
better than most other cards of the era) so there's still a couple of 
those around. I believe I have three lying around somewhere, one of them 
in fact still installed (in a machine that's currently not available 
though).

Sure, wouldn't be a tragedy to remove, but keeping it neither (writing 
an ALSA driver for the stupid thing has been on my personal TODO only 
slightly shorter then all the items preceding it).

>> SOUND_PSS
>> SOUND_SB
> 
> The original one (8-bit)? Not sure about relation to Kahlua and PAS

The relation to PAS16 at least is that the PAS includes a (independent) 
SB8 compatible chip. The OSS driver supplies two sound devices. At the 
moment, I'm not recalling with certainty whether or not they were also 
hardware mixed, but I guess they were...

Rene.