HardSID driver / News: Recent posts

Another year (or make that two years :), another release... This one's long overdue and adds support for PCI cards and kernel 2.6. Enjoy!

Only hours after the 0.15 release was made I noticed the read ioctl didn't work at all. Since Sidplay2 is going to use this feature I quickly patched it and made the 0.15a release. No other changes from 0.15.

After almost a year without releases, version 0.15 is now wrapped up. This release is mostly just for compatibility with newer kernels, but a few new things slipped in: ability to disable filters, configure all parameters via normal module options instead of the source, flush, read and delay ioctls etc. This release is also compatible with the current 2.5 kernels so far. Other good news is that the Sidplay2 patch is soon obsolete as the support is being incorporated in Sidplay2 itself and should be available in the next release coming very soon.

0.14 release is now available. It adds devfs support and mute functionality. Also the sidplay2 patch is now in a hopefully easier format.

The CVS repository is now online and contains releases from 0.07 upwards. Enjoy!

In the long tradition of brown-paper-bag type bugs, here comes mine... Fixes a show-stopper on 0.12 and updates the sidplay2 patch a bit.

Hot on the heels of 0.11 comes a new release, which fixes a serious bug with semaphores and 2.2 kernels. The semaphores weren't properly initialized by the kernel macro, which does initialize them correctly on 2.4. Well, fortunately this was found now and the driver should work ok also on 2.2 SMP again (hi, K-P :)

Another addition is a new version of the Sidplay2 patch, because the older one didn't apply anymore. This one is a more "proper" one and brings back working gui and samples (and even Galway noise). Enjoy!

Finally added multiple SID support! This needed also change in device numbering, so please read the README file.
Other highlight is that this release has been tested both on x86 and Alpha platforms. No changes to the code needed btw. :-)

Adds initial Quattro support, comments very welcome.

Thanks to Sourceforge, the future development of this driver found a home.