Open Sound System for NetBSD

This page shows the progress of the porting of OSSv4 to NetBSD.

Update

It's not known if anyone is continuing to work on a native port of OSSv4, but this page is kept for archival purposes.

NetBSD 10 should have greater compatibility with OSSv4 via the userspace translation layer ossaudio(3), and the native audio system audio(4) is still preferred.

Version

The current version is v4.2 (hg-889)

Status

• DMA: ported (not complete)
• PCI config access: complete
• PCI mapping: ported to bus_space
• INB/OUTB: incomplete (should use bus_space(9))
• module support: WIP
• Locking: ported to mutex(9)
• MALLOC: ported to kmem(9)
• getid: ported to kauth(9)
• pkg: incomplete
• compat_audio: not yet

FAQ

What works?

Loading osscore.kmod works. Loading virtal drivers work.

No functional testing has been done yet.

Who is working on it?

ahoka@

Where to get it?

You will need devel/mercurial and lang/gawk and devel/gmake to build it.

Browse online: http://bitbucket.org/ahoka/oss4-netbsd/

To get it:

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahoka/oss4-netbsd

How to build it?

http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Building_OSSv4_from_source

I use this to build modules:

rm -rf /tmp/ossbuild
mkdir /tmp/ossbuild
cd /tmp/ossbuild

/home/ahoka/mercurial.opensound.com/configure

gmake build

cd prototype/usr/lib/oss/build/
sh install.sh