From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vinod Koul Subject: Re: compressed audio support Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:16:31 +0530 Message-ID: <20131202074631.GL8834@intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA702619F9 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:44:07 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: maruthi srinivas Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:23:06PM +0530, maruthi srinivas wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that compressed audio framework being used with Asoc (alsa soc). > Can the framework be used with other than Asoc ? I mean with ALSA pci based > cards. Yes it can be, the PCI sound card would in this case directly call the register APIs. Do you have a PCI device which supports offload? > I see the implementation in the following files. which one is to be used ? > Does tinycompress in userspace can be used with either approaches ? Usermode does not care what is under the hood. It simply needs to see a compressed device entry /dev/snd/comprCxDy -- ~Vinod