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0 pointscycloptic5y ago0 comments

Didn't they do that by developing ALSA OSS emulation? That is effectively another implementation of the same API.

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Libalsa is there in FreeBSD ports, but it's only for backward compatibility with Linux, and it's only userspace parts. The kernel implements OSS API.

cyclopticOP5y ago

I mean Linux, it does the same but reversed: the kernel implements the ALSA API, and libaoss is provided for backwards compatibility in userspace with OSS. What else should they have done? The ALSA API is not the same as OSS and has a different set of features.

trasz5y ago

Feature set doesn’t really depend on the API, FreeBSD implements all that functionality despite using OSS.

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trasz5y ago

Libalsa is there in FreeBSD ports, but it's only for backward compatibility with Linux, and it's only userspace parts. The kernel implements OSS API.

cyclopticOP5y ago

trasz5y ago

Feature set doesn’t really depend on the API, FreeBSD implements all that functionality despite using OSS.

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