From: Eliot Blennerhassett <eblennerhassett@audioscience.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: multiple devices or one device w/ multiple subdevices?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:06:00 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A935518.4030608@audioscience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6160a5130908241026g574282cuc878346df2ff31ef@mail.gmail.com>
pl bossart wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a piece of custom hardware that provides 7 independent PCM
> outputs.
>
> My conclusion is that multiple devices would seem like a much better
> option. But I wanted to check with the community that I am on the
> right track. Thanks for your feedback!
It used to be that there was a limit of 4 devices per card.
But no (or large) limit on subdevices.
If this still applies you will need to use subdevices, and for
simplicity you would create just one device with 7 subdevs.
--
Eliot
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-25 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 17:26 multiple devices or one device w/ multiple subdevices? pl bossart
2009-08-24 20:07 ` Liam Girdwood
2009-08-25 3:06 ` Eliot Blennerhassett [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4A935518.4030608@audioscience.com \
--to=eblennerhassett@audioscience.com \
--cc=alsa-devel@alsa-project.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox