Midiman Audiophile 2496 (envy24/ice1712)

Hello,
I've got an Audiophile2496 card, which is using the ICEnsemble 1712 chip
(and ac97, I think).  Great little card.

Unfortunately, not yet supported under NetBSD.

Anyone in the process of writing a driver?  If not, anyone with this or
other ice1712 card (Delta66 etc?) that would like to help?

I have started a driver (I'm experimentally calling the device "envy")
under 1.6, and have it being recognised by autoconf, having added the
appropiate entries to sys/dev/pci/files.pci, sys/dev/DEVNAMES and
pcidevs:

RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs,v
retrieving revision 1.428.2.13
diff -r1.428.2.13 pcidevs
535a536
> vendor ICENSEMBLE	0x1412  IC Ensemble Inc.
1279a1281,1283
> 
> /* IC Ensemble Products */
> product ICENSEMBLE ENVY24 0x1712 PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller

and my files envy.c and envyregs.h are cannibalized from eap (hey,
everyone else seems to base their audio drivers off it...).

The documentation for the chip can be found from ALSA.

Question:
Is this list (tech-misc) the right place to ask these questions in the
first place? If not, which list is?
Anyone aware of any issues that I should be on the lookout for, esp.
regarding the 24 bit sample size, and 96kHz rate that I hope to get
happening?

Hope you all have a good day,
Joe.
PS. Off list, it's better to contact me at the address Joachim.Thiemann
(note the dot) at Mail.McGill.CA