Syncronous start and stop

Syncronous start and stop

[Giuliano Pochini]

My hardware can start/stop multiple indipendent substreams at the same time. Does
the ALSA driver API support that feature ?


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Re: Syncronous start and stop

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

> My hardware can start/stop multiple indipendent substreams at the same time. Does
> the ALSA driver API support that feature ?

Yes, use snd_pcm_set_sync() function in open() callback and add necessary
code to the trigger() callback. See to alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c code for
more details (this hardware has three streams which can be controlled
simultaneously) as a good example.

						Jaroslav

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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs


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Re: Syncronous start and stop

[Giuliano Pochini]

On 15-Nov-2003 Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>
>> My hardware can start/stop multiple indipendent substreams at the same time.
>> Does the ALSA driver API support that feature ?
>
> Yes, use snd_pcm_set_sync() function in open() callback and add necessary
> code to the trigger() callback. See to alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c code for
> more details (this hardware has three streams which can be controlled
> simultaneously) as a good example.

Fine.
Is that feature used by the upper ALSA driver to create multichannel
substreams when the hw hasn't this capability ?  Older Echoaudio
soundcards can only do mono and stereo operation, while newer series can
manage mono and any even number of channels. Since all cards can run any
number of substreams at the same time, I can emulate large substream on
older cards by starting several mono substream simultaneously
(MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED in this case). If the upper layer already has this
feature, I can avoid wasteing my time :)


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Re: Syncronous start and stop

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

>
> On 15-Nov-2003 Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> >
> >> My hardware can start/stop multiple indipendent substreams at the same time.
> >> Does the ALSA driver API support that feature ?
> >
> > Yes, use snd_pcm_set_sync() function in open() callback and add necessary
> > code to the trigger() callback. See to alsa-kernel/pci/ens1370.c code for
> > more details (this hardware has three streams which can be controlled
> > simultaneously) as a good example.
>
> Fine.
> Is that feature used by the upper ALSA driver to create multichannel
> substreams when the hw hasn't this capability ?

It can be used in alsa-lib (for example in multi plugin which does exactly
what you want).

>  Older Echoaudio
> soundcards can only do mono and stereo operation, while newer series can
> manage mono and any even number of channels. Since all cards can run any
> number of substreams at the same time, I can emulate large substream on
> older cards by starting several mono substream simultaneously
> (MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED in this case). If the upper layer already has this
> feature, I can avoid wasteing my time :)

Don't do this. Our goal is describe hardware in the driver not create
another abstraction layer.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs


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