From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2008-08-06 09:12:01
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Eric Shattow wrote: > I've had an IRC chat with freenode user faberman. He talked personally > to RME Audio engineers and has received code and PCIe / FireWire related > hardware, for the purpose of developing Linux drivers. The support is > closely related to existing ALSA drivers for the HDSP series of RME > hardware, and so, he is setting up an independent project at website: > http://www.linuxproaudio.org (incomplete at the time of this post) > > I found this news worthy of mentioning here on FFADO-devel. The RME > FireFace400/800 are best-of-class FireWire audio interfaces, and now > there is a developer with access to write a driver for this hardware. > > There is a wiki in progress, with some information: > http://wiki.linuxproaudio.org That's good news. I would prefer though if they joined FFADO for the Fireface. In my opinion it's the most sane thing to do. The last thing we need is more fragmentation. Greets, Pieter |