Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263339AbUJ2OiT (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263342AbUJ2OfG (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:35:06 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:16036 "EHLO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263341AbUJ2O0h (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:26:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:27:47 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Paul Davis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com, Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Schmidt , Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano , Karsten Wiese , jackit-devel Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0.4] Message-ID: <20041029142747.GD25204@elte.hu> References: <20041029134820.GA21746@elte.hu> <200410291419.i9TEJD75006459@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410291419.i9TEJD75006459@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 19 * Paul Davis wrote: > for our purposes, the number of channels is irrelevant. the audio > interface interrupts when it has and/or needs data. whether that data > covers 2, 9, 26 or 128 channels isn't particularly important. each > channel is handled at the same time. for most stereo devices, the data > for the channels is actually interleaved; for some high end > multichannel devices, each channel uses a separate memory buffer. > either way, its really not central. ok, thanks for the explanations. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/