
- It is now possible to handle devices that want "looping" DMA, e.g. the SoundBlaster correctly. The WSS and SB drivers use this. To do this several new methods were introduced in audio_hw_if. - Different silence handling (forced by previous change). - The audio driver can now be mmap()-ed, but due to problems in the VM system only for writing for now. - The OSS (Linux) audio emulation takes advantage of some of the new features.