Re: RFC Maestro-3i

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Sun, 04 Jun 2000 17:18:13 -0400

Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > In just a year or two, we have gone from "winmodem support is
> > impossible!" to hardware support for Lucent (and easily added for AC97
> > modem codecs), and a V.32 protocol stack in the works. Watch
> > http://www.linmodems.org/ periodically.
>
> OK I was already there Lucent's modems are *very* different beasts.
> BTW. The part responsible for the modem codec is MC97.

Lucent undoubtedly puts some (or a lot) of the protocol stack in
firmware, to offload processing onto the DSP, but since we don't have
hardware docs for such, we can't treat as anything more than an
expensive soundcard.

So yes the Lucent hardware is different from an MC97 codec, but from a
kernel perspective it is the same: once a modem protocol stack is
available, they can be used as modems.

Jeff

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Building 1024            | it is the safest thing we have.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |      -- Harry Emerson Fosdick




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