27 Nov
2004
27 Nov
'04
4:51 p.m.
Simon Jenkins wrote:
Lee Revell wrote:
We would like to support the M-Audio stuff, but...
According to their statements they don't use the BeBoB firmware provided
by BridgeCo (the company that produces the chipset these boxes are built
upon). Apparently they have developed their own firmware. And (for the
moment) they don't want to release details about this firmware. As a
result there M-Audio devices won't be supported by the FreeBoB driver.
I think that the first FW pro-audio device with linux support will be
the EgoSys ESI QuataFire 610. I got one from EgoSys to assist FreeBoB
development, and I like it. But due to it's limited I/O it's no match
for the RME Fireface or M-Audio Firewire 1814 devices. I have the
impression that it's more oriented to laptop based live perfomances. But
maybe the people at EgoSys are working on a larger version... The
BridgeCo chipset can handle more, and they already have the knowledge.
So if there is a market for an extended version, they might develop one.
Greets,
Pieter Palmers
FreeBob developer
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:14 +0100, Marek Peteraj
wrote:
Supported how? I thought FreeBob wasn't going to support M-Audio after
all.
Is there something else in the works?
The official statement is that there will be no
support for ALSA
(Linux)
FireWire drivers from RME. In other words there will be no such
drivers,
as it is impossible to write them without tons of hardware and
software documentation from RME. And we won't share these
information with
anyone.
Regards
Matthias Carstens
RME
Meh. So we all go buy M-Audio Firewire interfaces. Looks like they
will have the first supported firewire gear.