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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Byte order in sound drivers
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 19:00:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C13A6C4.ACFAF274@denise.shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011202171724.10074@smtp.wanadoo.fr


> >It depends on the HW you have. Most recent machines don't do HW
> >byteswap, and so accept only big-endian samples. The way this is
> >implemented in our driver currently is a bit weird though, the
> >setformat ioctl won't fail when trying to set an LE format, but
> >it will set the equivalent BE format. So the application is
> >expected to read back the format to figure out what had to be
> >done.

Same thing with some SoundBlasters. That's why there is a mess with
audio andianess.


Bye.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-09 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-01 10:16 Byte order in sound drivers Bryce McKinlay
2001-12-01 10:38 ` Jeff Koftinoff
2001-12-02  3:05   ` Bryce McKinlay
2001-12-02  3:14     ` Bryce McKinlay
2001-12-02  9:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-02 17:17       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-09 18:00         ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2001-12-02 18:42       ` Haavard Kvaalen
2001-12-02 22:39       ` Bryce McKinlay

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