Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:12:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:12:22 -0400 Received: from cnxt10143.conexant.com ([198.62.10.143]:38412 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:12:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:11:51 +0200 (CEST) From: X-X-Sender: To: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer cc: Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: ioctl arg passing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23 Apr 2001, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > writes: > > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:48PM +0100, Matt wrote: > > > > I'm writing a char device driver for a dsp card that drives a motion > > > > platform. > > > > > > Can you elaborate on the dsp card? Is it freely programmable? I'm > > > working on a project to support this kind of stuff via a > > > dedicated subsystem for Linux. > > > > Very interesting... The emu10k1 driver (SBLive!) that will appear > > shortly in acXX will support loading code to it's DSP. It's a very > > simple chip with only 16 instructions but it can generate > > hardware interrupts, DMA to host memory, 32 bit math. The maximum > > program size is 512 instructions (64 bits each) and can make use of 256 > > registers (32 bits). > > Do you mean we will be able to have the same kind of stuff they have on > Windows If someone writes the dsp code... > (like the mp3 encoding computed by the SB Live)?? This in particular seems to be a myth... Rui Sousa - 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/