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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Channel mapping API
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:06:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821140648.GC21557@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50339485.30500@canonical.com>

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:00:37PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 01:37 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:

> >This doesn't handle devices with simply numbered outputs (such as many
> >ICE1712-based devices), or cases where one PCM channel can be routed to
> >multiple outputs.  However, those devices typically have their own mixer
> >applets, and generic applications aren't interested in configuring them.

> As for routing more than one channel in the map from the same PCM,
> that seems a bit more complex. Maybe one could do a bitmap of
> channels instead of just one channel (with say, 32 room channel
> positions and 32 just numbered positions, that would be 64 bits).
> But how common is that anyway?

It's very common on the embedded side to use pure numbered stuff (or at
least to assign semantics dynamically at runtime which I suspect boils
down to the same thing here).

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-21 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-21 10:31 [RFC] Channel mapping API Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 11:24 ` David Henningsson
2012-08-21 11:44   ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-08-21 12:06   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 13:13     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 11:37 ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-08-21 12:15   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 12:31     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2012-08-21 12:35       ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 13:14         ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 14:00   ` David Henningsson
2012-08-21 14:06     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-08-21 14:13       ` David Henningsson
2012-08-21 14:18         ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 14:49           ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 15:38             ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-08-21 16:27               ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 17:05                 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 17:11                   ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 19:29                     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 15:49             ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 14:52           ` David Henningsson
2012-08-21 15:07             ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 15:38               ` David Henningsson
2012-08-21 16:34                 ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 17:09                   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 17:57                     ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 13:59 ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 14:08   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-21 14:12     ` Mark Brown
2012-08-21 18:03 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2012-08-21 19:23   ` Takashi Iwai

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