Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755058AbXFYMkc (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:40:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752470AbXFYMkZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:40:25 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:18351 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254AbXFYMkY (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:40:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:40:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Takashi Iwai cc: Tomasz =?ISO-8859-2?Q?K=B3oczko?= , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070624200837.16e11305@the-village.bc.nu> <20070624215724.025a5de5@the-village.bc.nu> 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 Content-Length: 824 Lines: 21 On Jun 25 2007 14:31, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> It was started in time when most cheap sound cards was without hw mixer. >> And .. when today you use ALSA on sound card without hw mixer still all >> this (past ?) problems are actual. > >Huh? I have no problems with soft mixing... Diverging from the discussion, how is soft mixing actually done? If it was done in userspace, it would need shared memory, or a back relay from kernelspace to userspace (and back again for the final output), otherwise I could not imagine how all alsa streams came together at one point. Jan -- - 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/