Re: [GSoC] GNU/Hurd Sound Support

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:15:59PM +0200, Mohammed Gamal wrote:

> I am familiar with the Linux kernel, although on a basic "big picture"
> level, and I am also familiar with its device driver subsystem.
> However the whole point of GSoC is to develop one's skills by getting
> involved in the FOSS community, so I really don't mind learning a lot
> of things, the question is whether it'd be feasible to learn and
> acquire the skills needed for this project in the scope of GSoC?

Well, it would probably be possible for a very capable developer. We
don't know your skills yet, so we have no idea whether it is possible
for you... It's rather ambitious, to be sure.

> Wouldn't this require a glue layer in order to use other OSs drivers?
> One GSoC idea was to update the the Linux glue layer for recent
> kernels, so wouldn't adding sound support with the approach you
> mentioned above require - for the long term - a new glue layer to be
> implemented first?

Indeed there is some overlapping -- updating the glue for newer drivers
will also require redoing part of the sound driver related code. But we
need to start somewhere...

-antrik-