From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abramo Bagnara Subject: Re: Re: dmix plugin Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:36:57 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E52B589.F0C88246@libero.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Paul Davis wrote: > > >> Still, don't we already *have* a feeding thread for the sound card? I mean > >> it doesn't just grab the memory buffer all by itself whenever it wants? > > > >Nope. The idea for the dmix plugin is that we share the DMA ring buffer > >with more threads (processes). There is no "master" thread which operates > >exclusively with the DMA buffer. > > that would be called "JACK", right ? Not necessarily, sorry. I've just explained in many ways that IMO the callback-only model choice will doom Jack to remain in a niche. And I say this with grief: Jack is the nicest acronym I've ever heard ;-) -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:abramo.bagnara@libero.it Opera Unica Phone: +39.546.656023 Via Emilia Interna, 140 48014 Castel Bolognese (RA) - Italy ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf