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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/11] Add AXD Audio Processing IP driver
On 10/28/2014 02:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 01:18:28PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
>> On 10/28/2014 11:55 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>> Qais Yousef wrote:
>>>> AXD Audio Processing IP performs audio decoding, encoding, mixing, equalisation,
>>>> synchronisation and playback.
>>> What exactly do you mean with "synchronisation" and "playback"?
>> Synchronisation refers to accurate audio playout relative to a master
>> clock source including compensation of drift between the master clock
>> source and the playout clock of the audio hardware. Hence allowing
>> synchronised audio playout across multiple independent devices.
>>
>> Playback simple refers to the fact that AXD is capable of managing audio
>> playout hardware like I2S and SPDIF interfaces.
>>
>>
>>>> It doesn't fit in alsa subsystem but I Cced them to confirm.
>>> ... because those two words sound like something that a sound card could do.
>> The problem mainly stems from the fact that we take a variety of
>> compressed audio as input and we could perform audio encoding. The
>> problem with the compressed audio is that the range of decoders and
>> configuration supported in alsa is limited and there's no support for
>> taking raw pcm and producing compressed output. I'm not an expert on
>> alsa but when I looked it looked like there's more infra structure
>> required.
>>
>> The following not supported points from Documentation/sound/alsa/compress_offload.txt affect us:
>>
>> - Volume control/routing is not handled by this API. Devices exposing a
>> compressed data interface will be considered as regular ALSA devices;
>> volume changes and routing information will be provided with regular
>> ALSA kcontrols.
>>
>> - Embedded audio effects. Such effects should be enabled in the same
>> manner, no matter if the input was PCM or compressed.
>>
>> - Encoding/decoding acceleration is not supported as mentioned
>> above. It is possible to route the output of a decoder to a capture
>> stream, or even implement transcoding capabilities. This routing
>> would be enabled with ALSA kcontrols.
> So instead you created a one-off api just for this hardware? Ick, no,
> please work with the audio developers to incorporate it into the
> standard Linux audio apis so that everyone can benifit and not require
> special userspace programs to drive this hardware.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

OK. I'll wait to hear from alsa developers to see the extent of work
required. I can't see it being trivial though. Would it be possible for
this to be accepted into staging until this is resolved?

Thanks,
Qais


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