[LAU] FFADO 2.0 released

[Mark Knecht]

Great news. Much thanks for all the hard work over the last few years.

Cheers,
Mark

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be> wrote:
> 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
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