Messages in this thread | | | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal | Date | Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:43:39 +0100 |
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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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