From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Compressed Audio Playback/Capture through ALSA framework Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:54:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20110317115413.GA31411@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <4D7FB076.30300@codeaurora.org> <20110316103814.GA8369@sirena.org.uk> <1300273162.9428.10.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <20110316115627.GC14125@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110316175357.GB15605@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20110316180828.GC15605@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <1300328500.9428.21.camel@vkoul-udesk3> <4D819551.7090901@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D819551.7090901@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Lai Cc: "Koul, Vinod" , pl bossart , "linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org" , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:00:01PM -0700, Patrick Lai wrote: > On 3/16/2011 7:21 PM, Koul, Vinod wrote: > >Wouldn't a virtual sound card solve this? I was thinking of representing > >all DSP elements in a virtual card. > I think it would work to certain extend but what if DSP can > instantiate elements at run-time, how can we deal with this use case > under current ALSA framework? Yes, exactly - handing runtime changes is a big issue, as is discoverability.