On 6/26/07, Andreas Hartmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not put the whole sound system in userland? It has been done before. Sound is just not performance critical at all and it's almost never mission critical.
There are dozens of companies selling Linux powered professional audio gear, multiple pro audio centric distros, and hundreds of serious free software audio apps. I suspect these developers and their users would disagree. I agree with you about userland drivers but at minimum this would require merging the -rt kernel patches, otherwise the latency/jitter will be too high to do anything but toy desktop sounds, then you need a mergeable mechanism for doing DMA and interrupt handling in userspace. It has been attempted before but never evolved to the point where you could drive a complex device like the emu10k1. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/