[linux-audio-dev] Happy about MADI

[Steve Harris]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:36:23 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Argh, what's the great thing about standards again. I still prefer mLAN, as
> >it uses generic, consumer i/o cards, and firewire is fitted to almost all
> >laptops without needing expensive audio only hardware.
> 
> i had an interesting conversation with the tech lead of the mLAN
> project at yamaha and with a professor in south africa who has been
> significant in spurring yamaha's coming linux efforts. i was
> complaining about what they've done with mLAN in terms of licensing
> etc. and how i feel this has held back the adoption of mLAN.

Your mention of "yamaha's coming linux efforts" interests me strangly ;)
Care to share anything?

Granted the connection mangement part of mLAN is dubious, I've not been
able to read the specs (for obvious reasons). When I spoke before I was
thinking more of A+M over IEEE-1394, which the linux kernel allready
supports to some extent, not mLAN as a whole. 

Hopefully Yamaha will address the licencing issues, otherwise it may be
neccesary for software providers to go our own way with connection
management, which would be a shame.

- Steve