Re: [Development report #1] Audio Stack Improvements

Wow,

thanks a lot!

I'm not a big audio guy, but I use my laptop at different places 
with different combinations of usb devices, it will be great to 
know which is which without grepping through dmesg or sysctl 
output :)

Cheers,

Mathias

Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org> writes:

> The past (and first) week working on the audio stack, sponsored 
> by the
> FreeBSD Foundation, I:
>
> - Set up my development environment; a VM image running -CURRENT 
> in
>   bhyve with PCI-passthru enabled to do all of the driver 
>   (kernel
>   generallly) development in the VM.
> - Wrote a small series of patches for vmrun.sh:
>   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43269
>   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43270
> - Modified the snd_uaudio(4) driver to provide information about 
> the
>   sound card (manufacturer, model and attached driver), as 
>   opposed to
>   the current generic "USB Audio" string, so /dev/sndstat and 
>   programs
>   like mixer(8) can output more useful information about USB 
>   audio
>   devices.
>   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43347
> - Submitted a patch to update (and unify) the description format 
> for all
>   sound devices, since some of them haven't been touched for 
>   years.
>   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43349
> - Implemented device_set_descf() , a printf-like version of
>   device_set_desc().
>   https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43370
> - Was preparing a few more smaller patches.
> - Started looking into possible solutions to
>   https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194727
>   also mentioned in the first paragraph of the BUGS section of 
>   the
>   snd_uaudio(4) man page.
>
> Christos


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