Re: ALSA vs. OSS

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:19:29PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > > If ALSA does or could support working with the programmable dsp, I'd be happy 
> > > to switch to it. Right now my "deprecated" SBLive! OSS drivers output higher 
> > > quality audio.
> > 
> > We don't have user space tools to update DSP code although our emu10k1
> > driver is capable to do it. Sure, we are doing things differently than OSS
> > driver so you cannot simply use the OSS utilities.
> > 
> > Perhaps, time to help us?
> 
> Is there any documentation on the interface for uploading new DSP code
> to the emu10k1?
> 
> Such would be /very/ useful for the task of writing tools to do the job.

There is a preliminary emu10k* loader:

http://ld10k1.sourceforge.net/

The author is also reachable at <pzad@xxxxxxxx>.

The whole API is in linux/include/sound/emu10k1.h (look at bottom).

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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