OpenJDK 6 build 12 source posted (directaudio/alsa backend)

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hi Mark.

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Although not in your changelogs, I saw you also included two of my fixes
> for the ALSA directaudio backend which I posted back in May on
> sound-dev, and which are included in icedtea already.
> - The sloppy open/close patch:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000053.html
> - The ALSA native lock patch:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000054.html
>
> Although it makes some applets that use some primitive sound output work
> better I never got a real response. Did you get someone from the sound
> team to look at these patches? They do seem to work for me and the few
> test users of those applets, but a full review by one of the sound
> engineers would be appreciated. They don't seem to be in the JDK7 tree.
>   

No; the patches were not explicitly reviewed; Alex, please take a look 
at them.

Neither Gervill nor your patches have yet been incorporated into JDK 7.

> Karl did correctly pointed out back then that we just need a better/new
> sound backend. I do hope in time the pulseaudio backend that Ioana and
> Omair are working on will be that backend.
>   

I don't have any technical background to speak of in sound, so I'll let 
others weigh in on evaluating any new backends.

Regards,

-Joe