alsa was Re: ABI coupling to hypervisors via CONFIG_PARAVIRT

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >I think the sound example to the right really shows it. 
> >/dev/dsp has a
> >consistent ABI on a ton of systems. The API below it, 
> >varies. Linux got
> >file_operations and ALSA. Solaris/BSD may have its
> >vnode-and-so-on-functions and some sort of OSS.
> 
> I think this is a poor example as applications lose a 
> lot of
> functionality (multiple stream mixing, software volume 
> control, etc)
> by going through the legacy /dev/dsp interface vs. using 
> native ALSA.

OTOH /dev/dsp is nice, clean, unixy interface, while alsa creates ugly
ABI you should not even use unless you are libalsa. ouch.
							Pavel
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