15 Dec
2004
15 Dec
'04
2:29 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 09:46, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 14 Dec 2004 10:03:31 +0100, Andreas Kuckartz
<A.Kuckartz(a)ping.de> wrote:
Maybe, maybe not. One quick question I have been meaning to ask. Would
it be possible to completely drive the card with firmware? What I mean,
can all the packet processing be handled by an onboard processor in the
soundcard? No gate arrays? What I picture is of-the-shelf components
only... [*]
-- Fernando
[*] in a former life I used to design digital hardware and code firmware
for small (up to 8x64) analog telephone exchanges, up to around 1989,
technology has changed a bit in the meantime :-)
Lee Revell wrote:
Actually, it was Lee and I (I think) who were the main proponents of
the Open Source Sound Card idea. Funny how that works out at times.
My current thought is that there aren't enough people interested in
doing it. Maybe I'm wrong? Christ, what the fuck country do you live in?
Don't you understand the
concept of people having bills to pay? Or do you just assume the RME
guys are independenly wealthy and just design sound cards for fun?
Interestingly some people seem to be existing who are working on Linux for fun.
Also there is a concept known as "Open Source Hardware" which was mentioned
here
before.