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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:27:15 +0200
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To: Felipe Tonello <eu@felipetonello.com>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
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Felipe Tonello wrote:
> I am planning to start the support of MIDI BLE profile[1].
>
> I suggest two main goals:
>  * To be transparent to applications, i.e., use rawmidi and sequencer
> ALSA interfaces to interact.
>  * To support peripheral and central BLE roles.
>
> My question is: what is the best way possible of doing it?

Just write a (user-space) sequencer client.

> [...]
> They all have the problem of context switching between bluez plugin
> and alsa midi driver.

Why would context switches be a problem?


Regards,
Clemens

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Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC] MIDI over Bluetooth Low Energy
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Felipe Tonello wrote:
> I am planning to start the support of MIDI BLE profile[1].
>
> I suggest two main goals:
>  * To be transparent to applications, i.e., use rawmidi and sequencer
> ALSA interfaces to interact.
>  * To support peripheral and central BLE roles.
>
> My question is: what is the best way possible of doing it?

Just write a (user-space) sequencer client.

> [...]
> They all have the problem of context switching between bluez plugin
> and alsa midi driver.

Why would context switches be a problem?


Regards,
Clemens