Re: Sound Driver for 82801FB

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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:17:23 -0500
"Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin_at_videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steph,  

First of all, I want to thank you very much for all your information
about the current development of the driver...   In the case you need
someone to test your sound driver, I would be glad to test it for you.
   

Regards,   

Martin



> Thomas Hurst wrote:
> > * Martin Wilke (unixfreunde_at_gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> >> I've bought myself an Intel Pentium M pc, which has the Soundchip
> >> intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW in it.  Is it possible to build a Driver
> >> for it?
> > 
> > This is one of Intel's new HDA (High Defenition Audio) chips, which
> > is not yet supported:
> > 
> >   http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-hda

> > 
> > Looks like there's a NetBSD driver to port now.
> > 
> 
> I'm currently working on this as I have recently updated my laptop and
> I'm now without sound too. I first looked in porting the NetBSD driver
> but very soon decided not to do it this way.
> 
> They have implemented a monolithic driver that controls both the hda
> controller and the audio codec. As one controller can control multiple
> codecs that can have various types: audio, modem, etc. I chose to
> implement a hda controller (hdac) which will attach to the controller
> and will then probe for the various codecs attached to it via the HDA
> Link and attach other drivers to control these. This way, it will be
> possible to have more than one audio codec controlled at the same
> time (one in the laptop and one in the docking station for example),
> and maybe in time a modem codec (though I don't think I'll do that
> myself).
> 
> But, and this is a big but, don't hold you breath. I'm not going very
> fast as I don't have that much time to invest into that after job and
> real life. Currently, I have the basic architecture in place on paper
> and the driver is just ready to start sending and receiving commands
> (verbs) to the codecs.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Steph
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