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From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2009-12-19 13:12:12
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The FFADO team is proud and happy to announce the release of FFADO 2.0.0. As the release candidates have been around for almost one year now without a significant amount of bug reports we feel confident that the current code-base has matured. Around the end of november the 1000-th device was registered as being used with FFADO, which seemed to be a nice number to triggered the release. Furthermore on December 2 the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 has been released. This version fixes the new kernel FireWire drivers such that they are compatible with FFADO. So once the distributions pick up this kernel the old/new kernel stack confusion should be history. Thanks go out to the vendors that provided us with gear to support for the 2.0 release: Echo Digital Audio, Edirol, Ego Systems Inc, Focusrite, Mackie and Terratec. Kudos for their early-bird support! Special thanks also go to BridgeCo and TC Applied for providing us with their development platforms and for helping with vendor contacts. Their support makes that FFADO covers the most widely used platforms for FireWire audio and that we can quickly implement support for new devices. Looking ahead to the 2.1 release we can announce that we have implemented (basic) support for additional devices from Focusrite, Behringer, Stanton and TC Electronic. We plan to move to beta-testing 2.1 fairly soon as development on it has been ongoing for more than a year now. Additionally, work is being done on the RME devices, but its not yet known when that will be finished. Support for some other vendors is in the pipeline, so stay tuned for more announcements. A second major development is the move of the streaming infrastructure to kernel space. A kernel-space implementation will bring significant improvements with respect to reliability and efficiency. Furthermore it will allow to expose an ALSA interface, meaning that the scope of FireWire audio on Linux is extended significantly. Thanks to the Google Summer of Code and the Linux Foundation, work on this has been done during the summer. The code is not yet ready for use, but things are moving. More information can be found here: http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.0 For the eager, a direct download link: http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0.0.tar.gz On behalf of the FFADO team, Pieter Palmers |
From: Tobias K. <to...@we...> - 2009-05-18 17:24:48
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Hello Pieter, thank you very much for you effort! I noticed, that, with Edirol-FA-101, there are many xruns in Jack when the wireless lan is online. If I switch it off, there are only a view xruns the whole day. Is something wrong with my installation or is it a bug? Thank you. Tobias Am Sonntag 17 Mai 2009 19:07:30 schrieb Pieter Palmers: > Dear, > > The FFADO team is happy to announce the release of the second release > candidate for FFADO 2.0. > > It has been 6 months since we released FFADO 2.0 Release Candidate 1, > and we have to admit that this is quite long. The usage statistics show > that about 300 people have been using RC1 in this period, and the good > news is that we did not get a lot of bug reports. Most of the reports > filed were related to crappy host controller hardware (most notably the > Ricoh controllers), which is something we unfortunately cannot fix. In > the mean time the remaining bug reports have been fixed, so here we are > again. > > This release candidate contains a few reliability improvements and > bugfixes that should get some field testing before we can release the > official 2.0. I would therefore like to ask all users and packagers to > upgrade as soon as possible such that we can release sooner rather than > later. If we get to about 100 registered users without significant > significant bug reports I feel confident that we're good to go. So happy > testing! > > To indicate that we're quite busy even though we don't put out a lot of > announcements let me give you a sneak preview of what is under > development for post-2.0 ... > > First of all 2.1 will contain support for extra devices: > > * The first device to take full advantage of our DICE platform > support will be the Focusrite Saffire PRO40. The platform based > audio and MIDI streaming is fully functional. The custom mixer > functionality is currently being alpha-tested. > * The DICE platform support also enables the basic use of the > TC Electronic Konnekt 8, 24D and Live. Support for these devices > is limited to streaming (no DSP effects). Currently it doesn't > look like the DSP is going to be supported any time soon. > * Support for the Behringer FCA-202 has been added. > * Support for the Stanton SCS.1 series is added. Support for both > the audio I/O as the HSS1394 control surface protocol has been > implemented, meaning that these devices are fully functional. > > We keep on talking to several device vendors to increase our device > support, and we will most likely be announcing some new devices in the > near future. > > The second major development is the move of the streaming infrastructure > to kernel space. Thanks to the Google Summer of Code and the Linux > Foundation, we have somebody working on this during the summer. A > kernel-space implementation will bring significant improvements with > respect to reliability and efficiency. Furthermore it will expose an > ALSA interface, meaning that the scope of FireWire audio is extended > significantly. > > The following changes have been made: > * Various packaging improvements and cosmetic fixes. > * Improved the Edirol FA101 mixer > * While the streaming engine is running, prevent mixer changes that > result in aborted streaming > * Add status bar logging to the mixer window > * Install a service-file if possible > * Add command rate control for the Saffire devices to reduce the issues > with mixer actions messing up audio. > * Fix Terratec Phase88 mixer > * Implement mixer support for the MOTU UltraLite > * Improve mixer support for the MOTU 896HD > * Add a minimum for the packetsize parameter for very low > channel-count devices > * Fix handling of MIDI 2x and 3x mode > * Improve the jitter performance of the timestamping > * Reduce CPU usage > * Fix the bug that prevented jackd from exiting freewheeling mode > * Introduce transmit prebuffering to increase reliability with small > period sizes > * MOTU: Fix bug related to disabled (unused) audio channels > * Introduce support for driver parameters in the config file > * Ensure that the order specified in the specification string when > aggregating devices is honored. > * Ensure that libffado.so is properly versioned (SONAME) and installed > * Add a firmware version check for ECHO Fireworks based devices > * Add a firmware version check for Terratec Phase88 devices > * By default the library is compiled with debugging turned off > > More information can be found here: > http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/1031 > > For the eager, a direct download link: > http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0-rc2.tar.gz > > > On behalf of the FFADO team, > > Pieter Palmers > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables > unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine > for externally facing server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > FFADO-announce mailing list > FFA...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ffado-announce |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2009-05-17 17:07:36
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Dear, The FFADO team is happy to announce the release of the second release candidate for FFADO 2.0. It has been 6 months since we released FFADO 2.0 Release Candidate 1, and we have to admit that this is quite long. The usage statistics show that about 300 people have been using RC1 in this period, and the good news is that we did not get a lot of bug reports. Most of the reports filed were related to crappy host controller hardware (most notably the Ricoh controllers), which is something we unfortunately cannot fix. In the mean time the remaining bug reports have been fixed, so here we are again. This release candidate contains a few reliability improvements and bugfixes that should get some field testing before we can release the official 2.0. I would therefore like to ask all users and packagers to upgrade as soon as possible such that we can release sooner rather than later. If we get to about 100 registered users without significant significant bug reports I feel confident that we're good to go. So happy testing! To indicate that we're quite busy even though we don't put out a lot of announcements let me give you a sneak preview of what is under development for post-2.0 ... First of all 2.1 will contain support for extra devices: * The first device to take full advantage of our DICE platform support will be the Focusrite Saffire PRO40. The platform based audio and MIDI streaming is fully functional. The custom mixer functionality is currently being alpha-tested. * The DICE platform support also enables the basic use of the TC Electronic Konnekt 8, 24D and Live. Support for these devices is limited to streaming (no DSP effects). Currently it doesn't look like the DSP is going to be supported any time soon. * Support for the Behringer FCA-202 has been added. * Support for the Stanton SCS.1 series is added. Support for both the audio I/O as the HSS1394 control surface protocol has been implemented, meaning that these devices are fully functional. We keep on talking to several device vendors to increase our device support, and we will most likely be announcing some new devices in the near future. The second major development is the move of the streaming infrastructure to kernel space. Thanks to the Google Summer of Code and the Linux Foundation, we have somebody working on this during the summer. A kernel-space implementation will bring significant improvements with respect to reliability and efficiency. Furthermore it will expose an ALSA interface, meaning that the scope of FireWire audio is extended significantly. The following changes have been made: * Various packaging improvements and cosmetic fixes. * Improved the Edirol FA101 mixer * While the streaming engine is running, prevent mixer changes that result in aborted streaming * Add status bar logging to the mixer window * Install a service-file if possible * Add command rate control for the Saffire devices to reduce the issues with mixer actions messing up audio. * Fix Terratec Phase88 mixer * Implement mixer support for the MOTU UltraLite * Improve mixer support for the MOTU 896HD * Add a minimum for the packetsize parameter for very low channel-count devices * Fix handling of MIDI 2x and 3x mode * Improve the jitter performance of the timestamping * Reduce CPU usage * Fix the bug that prevented jackd from exiting freewheeling mode * Introduce transmit prebuffering to increase reliability with small period sizes * MOTU: Fix bug related to disabled (unused) audio channels * Introduce support for driver parameters in the config file * Ensure that the order specified in the specification string when aggregating devices is honored. * Ensure that libffado.so is properly versioned (SONAME) and installed * Add a firmware version check for ECHO Fireworks based devices * Add a firmware version check for Terratec Phase88 devices * By default the library is compiled with debugging turned off More information can be found here: http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/1031 For the eager, a direct download link: http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0-rc2.tar.gz On behalf of the FFADO team, Pieter Palmers |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2008-11-22 23:57:26
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Hi, The FFADO team is proud to announce the first release candidate for FFADO 2.0. This release candidate is intended to collect feedback about the library under wide-spread usage. The code should be free of major bugs. We are looking for packagers that are interested in creating packages for their favorite distribution. Please contact us if you can help us out with this. Release and download information: http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1 Currently, the installation options are: * manual build from source [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1] * semi-automatic build from source into a 'sandbox' [http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/SandboxInstalls] * APT repository for Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy (possibly others) [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/apt] Please test and report issues at our TRAC at http://subversion.ffado.org/ or at the mailing list (ffa...@li...). Please take note of http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/WritingGoodTickets when reporting bugs. We ask all users of FreeBoB that are not yet testing FFADO to try this release candidate. Note that FFADO can co-exist with FreeBoB without any problems, so you can revert back to your original setup very easily. Enjoy, Pieter Palmers ffado.org |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2008-10-30 11:59:49
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Hi, A simple message to announce the availability of beta7 of FFADO, the FireWire audio driver framework for Linux. It took quite some time, but finally it is ready for large scale public testing. Release and download information: http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/beta Currently, the installation options are: * manual build from source * semi-automatic build from source into a 'sandbox' (http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/SandboxInstalls) * APT repository for Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy (possibly others) Please test and report issues at our TRAC at http://subversion.ffado.org/ or at the mailing list (ffa...@li...). Please take note of http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/WritingGoodTickets when reporting bugs. We ask all users of freebob that are not yet testing FFADO to try this beta release. Note that FFADO can co-exist with Freebob without any problems, so you can revert back to your original setup very easily. Enjoy, Pieter Palmers ffado.org |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2007-11-09 11:26:49
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Today I received a Mackie Mixer with FireWire option, meaning that we're going to support this device in FFADO. Kudo's to Mackie. Pieter |