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    Subject[OFFTOPIC] Re: ioctl arg passing
    On 23 Apr 2001, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:

    > <rui.sousa@mindspeed.com> writes:
    >
    > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:48PM +0100, Matt wrote:
    > > > > I'm writing a char device driver for a dsp card that drives a motion
    > > > > platform.
    > > >
    > > > Can you elaborate on the dsp card? Is it freely programmable? I'm
    > > > working on a project to support this kind of stuff via a
    > > > dedicated subsystem for Linux.
    > >
    > > Very interesting... The emu10k1 driver (SBLive!) that will appear
    > > shortly in acXX will support loading code to it's DSP. It's a very
    > > simple chip with only 16 instructions but it can generate
    > > hardware interrupts, DMA to host memory, 32 bit math. The maximum
    > > program size is 512 instructions (64 bits each) and can make use of 256
    > > registers (32 bits).
    >
    > Do you mean we will be able to have the same kind of stuff they have on
    > Windows

    If someone writes the dsp code...

    > (like the mp3 encoding computed by the SB Live)??

    This in particular seems to be a myth...

    Rui Sousa

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