Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:19:12 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > I've driver which essentially turns lucents winmodem into soundcard.
I'll add that it doesn't support all Lucent winmodems yet -- just the Toshiba laptop ones and any compatibles.
But soon it will support every Lucent winmodem we know about.
> Now, question is where should it go. That winmodem uses interrupts so > little that it can be nicely done using polling+userspace with zero > performance lost. Still it is device driver. Should it go into kernel? > [Well, drivers/sound/modem would be cool :-)]
I suppose it is a sort of sound device, with an interesting mixer. I want to make sure we have a suitable interface to the DSPs too at I intend to use them.
> Then, there's v34 stack. It is not written yet, but it will eventually > get written. It needs sort of realtime guarantees. Should it go into > kernel?
I don't think so. Ingo's low latency patch should give us all the guarantee we need.
-- Jamie
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