2009/7/14 Tim Newsham <news...@lava.net>: >> However, I still think this is worthwhile just to provide (a) a >> standard interface for audio devices (e.g., /dev/audioctl always >> accepts the same messages to set volume, input levels, etc), and (b) >> to have a single kernel support more than one type of audio device >> (imagine a network where you actually have an SB16 plus a bunch of >> AC97 devices and some of these HCI things that Devon mentioned-one 9pc >> should be able to support them all). > > I was looking at audio interfaces a little lately and > I noticed that inferno's audio device uses different > conventions and seems to be more complete. It might > be worthwhile to shoot for an interface like that.
Several years ago, Kris and I were working on a mixerfs. Neither of us were terribly familiar with digital audio at the time, and it never ended up working entirely properly (read: multiple channels got choppy), but if anybody is interested in the code, I still have it. --dho >> - Dan C. > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > >
