[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] prefer ALSA over OSS

[Ivo]

On Friday 04 May 2007 00:37, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
>  On 2007.05.03 at 23:03:33 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote next:
> > For all I know that's what NVidia and ATI are doing (at least they are
> > doing a lot in the kernel), so some are obviously thinking like that.
>
> unfortunately yes, fglrx module size is >750kb, still "dri" fglrx part
> and gl library are much bigger (10 mb and 1 mb). So most work is done in
> library..

You conveniently cut this part of Reimar's e-mail:

> But obviously that is not what I want, kernel should expose the hardware
> as directly and simple as possible.
> And those who want should have a nice library available.
> ALSA approach would be to remove /dev/fb, /dev/tty*, all consoles, 
> make it impossible to use svgalib and vidix, hide the documentation
> for all X functions and only leave OpenGL for applications to use.

This describes exactly why the alsa approach is wrong.

--Ivo