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    On 2006-01-04, at 15:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

    >>> Still would be nice if users of ALSA who have the OSS backwards
    >>> compat
    >>> enabled would thus also get transparent software mixing for all apps
    >>> using the OSS API.
    >>> not crucial, that's not what I'm saying, just nice if it would be
    >>> possible.
    >>
    >> Technicall it's trivial to implement the soft-mixing in the kernel.
    >> The question is whether it's the right implementation.
    >> We have a user-space softmix for ALSA, and aoss wrapper for OSS using
    >> it. (I know aoss still has some problems that should be fixed,
    >> though.)
    >>
    > Software mixing in the kernel is like FPU ops in the kernel...

    Could you please elaborate a tad bit more on the analogy? It doesn't
    appear to be stunningly obvious.
    Are you aware of the reasons why floating point operations are
    avoided inside the kernel?
    They are *not* principal - it's just engineering pragmatism.

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