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From: "Clemens Ladisch" <cladisch@fastmail.net>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>,
	ALSA development <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: Wall clock interrrupts
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:55:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201247753.30957.1233203209@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479983FD.5040704@superbug.co.uk>

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Do all sound cards hardware have wall clocks that one can generate 
> interrupts from?
> I know all Creative and E-Mu cards do.

Some ISA cards and the Yamaha DS-1 chips do; all other cards have only
the PCM period interrupt.

> I am looking to use the wall clock interrupt for triggering events in 
> application space,

I guess you want to synchronize those events to the PCM playback?
This makes sense only when the PCM is running, and in that case you can
use the PCM slave timer.


Regards,
Clemens

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-25  6:38 Wall clock interrrupts James Courtier-Dutton
2008-01-25  7:55 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]

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