[ros-dev] Open Sound System porting

Hi guys,

I've been in touch with the guy that ported OSS to Haiku (open-source BeOS)
after some 
discussion with the folks over at #winehackers to get some help with audio
development.

Anyway, basically the idea so far is to use OSS as a "fall-back" audio
driver 
implementation. So unless there is a "better" driver installed (ie an
official one for 
an audio device), ReactOS can use an Open Sound System driver instead.

The result? There will at least be sound functionality.

OSS is designed to be mostly platform-independent. By rewriting a few of
the core 
modules, the entire set of drivers will be able to work with whatever
platform you 
desire.

This can be implemented on top of the existing MME API architecture for the
moment, and 
can later be translated to use the WDM audio framework.

Anyway, having stuck the OSS code into my local ReactOS source tree, I'm
trying to 
figure out how to get it to compile using rbuild. The first hurdle I have
come across is 
that there is extensive use of ioctl. Indeed it seems that most ports of
OSS work on 
platforms based on Posix (Unix?)

So my main question at this time is how to handle this? The calls in
question appear to 
be documented inside a file called "soundcard.h" in the OSS sources however
this just 
seems to be definitions for the ioctl codes. So I suspect a majority of the
drivers are 
calling ioctl.

Therefore, I figure the best way around this is probably to provide a fake
ioctl that 
provides the expected functionality, and make this wrap DeviceIoControl
with something 
that can translate the ioctl parameters into whatever...

The only other way I see around this is to rewrite all calls to ioctl, and
rewrite the 
IOCTL codes with NT-style ones.

Thoughts/ideas?

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