• Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    boot_wb
    Posts: 874 from 2007/4/9
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    The Mac-mini is dying to be a media centre. Unfortunately, it's native sound output is limited to 2-channel analogue output.

    The only upgrade option is via the addition of USB hardware, however USB audio hardware requires isochronous transfer mode, which is currently unsupported by our driver.

    This bounty is for the writing of a USB host controller driver to support isochronous transfers, such as to allow correct functioning of USB audio hardware when attached to a USB port of the ?PD720101 EHCI host controller under MorphOS. The driver should also support all currently supported modes of the existing ?PD720101 driver for MorphOS.

    This NEC chip is also used on cheap PCI expansion cards, and in some later MDD Powermac models, so the driver would not be limited in scope to the mac-mini.

    PS - I'm not sure the best 'bounty system' to use - if anyone has a preference, or good/bad experiences, please suggest.

    I'll start off by committing $50 to the (so-far hypothetical) pot.

    [ Edited by boot_wb on 2010/8/3 16:55 ]
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