Replying off-list, thanks for the time.<br><br> Seablade<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 4, 2007 10:59 AM, Pieter Palmers <<a href="mailto:pieterp@joow.be">pieterp@joow.be</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Thomas Vecchione wrote:<br>> Howdy-<br>><br>> I know at one point there was talk of FreeBob supporting the Metric<br>> Halo interfaces as they were willing to give all necessary documentation
<br>> on them. Well I have come to a point where I need to replace my laptop<br>> interface that has died and would like to stick with one that is Linux<br>> compatible, and Metric Halo was strongly recommended by a friend that is
<br>> on the Mac, so I was wondering if there was any update to the status of<br>> the Metric Halo support on Linux? Anyone know?<br>><br>> Short of that I would go with RME and either a multiface or digiface,
<br>> not sure which, but would rather go with Metric Halo if they are<br>> supported. Primarily my laptop runs the Mac OS so I can get by without<br>> support for a little while, but I am looking to put Linux back on it
<br>> when it is not in show mode.<br><br></div></div>The Metric Halo devices are currently not supported by FFADO, and won't<br>be in the upcoming release. This due to the fact that I haven't heard<br>anything from Metric Halo for quite some time now. They agreed on
<br>providing specs and test devices, but haven't done that yet.<br><br>Since FFADO is built as a framework with heterogeneous devices in mind,<br>I don't think it will be difficult implement support for them. Once all
<br>data is available, along with a test device, it should be a matter of<br>weeks to get the basic I/O functionality running. That would exclude the<br>fancy DSP stuff, which would probably take a few months to implement.
<br><br>For as long as I can I will implement FFADO support for all firewire<br>audio devices for which their manufacturer provides the needed info and<br>hardware. However I'm not going to actively try to convince vendors to
<br>provide these things. After all it's my spare time, and I'd rather fill<br>it with coding than with convincing reluctant vendors.<br><br>So the bottom line is (for all firewire audio devices):<br>If you can convince the manufacturers to provide what they should, I'll
<br>do the coding. If not, I'm sorry. But I do have the impression that<br>(potential) customers exercise more weight than a developer.<br><br>In case of Metric Halo: they contacted us with the question whether we<br>
could support their devices. That was almost two years ago. Since then<br>nothing moved since they didn't have time. But as we all know, time can<br>be freed... So I guess that if you contact them, their answer might be
<br>positive.<br><br>Greets,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Pieter Palmers<br>FFADO Developer<br></font></blockquote></div><br>