Re: RFC Maestro-3i

Martin Dalecki (m.dalecki@stock-world.de)
Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:38:15 +0200

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> 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.

Eh... If I remember correctly some long time ago there was a 9.600 Baud
modem codec for the SoundBlaster out there...
However for some jet unknown reason it got removed again.

> 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.
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