Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:41:54 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ? |
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On 6/26/07, Andreas Hartmetz <ahartmetz@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not put the whole sound system in userland? It has been done before. Sound > is just not performance critical at all and it's almost never mission > critical.
There are dozens of companies selling Linux powered professional audio gear, multiple pro audio centric distros, and hundreds of serious free software audio apps. I suspect these developers and their users would disagree.
I agree with you about userland drivers but at minimum this would require merging the -rt kernel patches, otherwise the latency/jitter will be too high to do anything but toy desktop sounds, then you need a mergeable mechanism for doing DMA and interrupt handling in userspace. It has been attempted before but never evolved to the point where you could drive a complex device like the emu10k1.
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