From:	Emmanuel Galanos <egalanos@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
To:	linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Date:	Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:49:52 +1100 (EST)
Subject: SB Live (fwd)


	FYI. Creative's response to a request for SB Live info among other
points...


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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:36:05 -0800
From: Jacob Hawley <jhawley@creaf.com>
To: egalanos@cse.unsw.edu.au
Subject: Linux

The Linux group is partially right.  Creative has no plans of releasing its
intellectual property to the general public.  We have spent many years and many
millions of dollars developing the EMU10K1 audio processor, and we do not intent
to release it.  This is not much different than asking Intel to publish the
internal details of the Pentium II on their website.

However, like Intel, AMD or any other chip manufacture we are planning on
publishing enough information that interested parties will be able to develop
drivers / applications for Linux or any other OS.  Initially we plan on working
with 4Front Technologies to deliver a Linux driver, this is partly because of
their expertise.  Additionally, 4Front has proven their ability to deliver and
maintain drivers for Unix based OS's so it seems that this is a viable first
step for Creative into Linux.

Frankly, their is SO much false information in the newsgroups that they have
actually SLOWED the release of information to the public.  Their was one joker
who said he had our internal spec, and that he was going to develop a driver
independantly of us.  That caused a COMPLETE shutdown of my Linux development
for about the last 6 months while we did an internal investigation to find the
leak.  It turns out that he didn't have anything, and that he was blowing smoke.

Creative will deliver a Linux driver and will at some point (6-9 mo.) provide a
library that will work with ALAS and enable most of the functionality of the
chip.  Over time I expect that the full functionality of the chip will be
exposed as Linux developers begin to get a feel for our library.

Feel free to repost....

Jacob Hawley
Sr. Manager, Custom Engineering
Creative Labs, Inc.


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