Re: OSS on redhat?

[Stefan Reinauer <stepan suse de>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Ken Crandall wrote:

> OSS works on the Alpha, with the caveat that the hardware must be
> "alpha-ready".  A great deal of sound cards make some 32-bit assumptions
> and don't play well in 64-bit land.

Hmm. Why should this be a problem? Since you "contact" a soundcard by
using the kernel's I/O functions, the hardware should not even notice that
it is applied to a 64bit machine.
I heard of problems with big/little endian mixed hardware, though, since
if you transfer data, you don't always know the exact boundaries and so
can't determine how to flip bytes.

Correct me, if I am wrong...

Regards,
	Stefan

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