On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:22 +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > No. You didn't get it. I'm taking the view that mixing sound is simply > a task you would typically love to make a DSP firmware do. > However providing a DSP for sound processing at 44kHZ on the same > PCB as an 1GHZ CPU is a ridiculous waste of resources. Thus most > hardware > vendors out there decided to use the main CPU instead. Thus the > "firmware" > is simply running on the main CPU now. Now where should it go? I'm > convinced > that its better to put it near the hardware in the whole stack. You > think > it's best to put it far away and to invent artificial synchronization > problems between different applications putting data down to the > same hardware device.
This is the exact line of reasoning that led to Winmodems. 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/
