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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2018 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -10,6 +11,13 @@ is included in the section entitled
[[!meta title="Sound Support"]]
+[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\
+
+---
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+This is no longer valid as a Google Summer of Code project."""]]
+
+
The Hurd presently has no sound support. Fixing this, [[!GNU_Savannah_task
5485]], requires two steps: the first is to port some other kernel's drivers to
[[GNU_Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] so we can get access to actual sound
@@ -31,8 +39,6 @@ to come up with an appropriate design.
Another option would be to evaluate whether a driver that is completely running
in user-space is feasible. <!-- TODO. Elaborate. -->
-Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
-
Exercise: This project requires kernel (driver framework) hacking as well as
some Hurd server hacking; so the exercise should involve either of these, or
even both. You could for example port some newer driver to run in the existing