Re: PulseAudio support

[Justus Winter]

David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just pushed an update to my Hurd distro build scripts for Fedora 26
> at https://github.com/dm0-/gnuxc which also includes a translator for
> /dev/audio.  I've uploaded the translator source separately if anyone
> else is interested:
>
>     https://github.com/dm0-/hurd-rump-audio
>
> The README has details, but the summary is that the translator
> pretends to be a Solaris audio device and acts as a rump kernel client
> converting I/O to the NetBSD audio device.  Since PulseAudio has a
> Solaris module, this allows audio playback from any programs that use
> PulseAudio without patching them or modifying their build processes.
> (That includes IceCat/Firefox, so e.g. web video sites are fully
> working with this.)

Oh wow, nice work :)

I should continue my work on GNU Machs userspace device driver interface
so that we can consider including those kind of drivers in Hurd proper.

Maybe we can include it in the Debian package in the mean time.


Justus

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